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"Roughing it."

Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870-71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the "Wild West" during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother''s diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stor.

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  • "works of Mark Twain"
  • "Mark Twain's works"
  • "Roughing It"
  • "Oxford Mark Twain"
  • "Sammlung"
  • "Innocents at home"@en
  • "Innocents at home"
  • "Ausgewählte humoristische Schriften"
  • "Roughing it"@pl
  • "Roughing it"@en
  • "Roughing it"@it
  • "Roughing it"
  • "Works"
  • "Lehr- und Wanderjahre"
  • "Mark Twain's Roughing It"@en

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  • "Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was authored during 1870-71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the "Wild West" during the years 1861-1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother''s diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stor."@en
  • "Twain reminisces about his five years of roaming around the country from 1861 to 1866--Novelist."
  • "Twain reminisces about his five years of roaming around the country from 1861 to 1866--Novelist."@en
  • "Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West.--P. [4] of cover."@en
  • "The author's travels to California and Hawaii."@en
  • "Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner after he went to join his brother, a newly appointed federal official, in Nevada."
  • "Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Roughing It" tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved American writers of all time. The story follows many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer. Through his attempts to strike it rich, he meets a motley crew of colorful people, while weaving through humorous mishaps and standing through it all with the endearingly good humor for which he's famous."
  • "A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s."@en
  • "Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835 and is far better known by his pen name; Mark Twain. An American author and humorist of the first order he is perhaps most famous for his novels, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, written in 1876, and its sequel, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, written in 1885 and often described with that mythic line - "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the backdrop for these great novels. Apprenticed to a printer he also worked as a typesetter but eventually became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Later, heading west with his brother, Orion to make his fortune he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and found his true calling as a writer of humorous stories. His wit and humour sparkle from every page, his craft evident with every phase and punctured target. Of course as a master of his craft his observations on people, situations and locations create a fabric of great texture and detail and this reflects across short stories, novels and his travel writings. Twain was born during a visit by Halley's Comet, and predicted that he would "go out with it" as well. He died the day following the comet's subsequent return in 1910. Here we present Roughing it."@en
  • "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked as a reporter in San Francisco. It was there that he began to establish a nationwide reputation as a humorist. Roughing it (1891), first published in 1872, is his account of his adventures in the Far West. He devotes twenty chapters to the overland journey by boat and stagecoach to Carson City, including several chapters on the Mormons. Next come chronicles of mining life and local politics and crime in Virginia City and San Francisco and even a junket to the Hawaiian Islands. The book closes with his return to San Francisco and his introduction to the lecture circuit."
  • "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as "Mark Twain," left Missouri in 1861 to work with his brother, the newly appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Once settled in Nevada, Clemens fell victim to gold fever and went to the Humboldt mines. When prospecting lost its attractions, Clemens found work as a reporter in Virginia City. In 1864, Clemens moved to California and worked as a reporter in San Francisco. It was there that he began to establish a nationwide reputation as a humorist. Roughing it (1891), first published in 1872, is his account of his adventures in the Far West. He devotes twenty chapters to the overland journey by boat and stagecoach to Carson City, including several chapters on the Mormons. Next come chronicles of mining life and local politics and crime in Virginia City and San Francisco and even a junket to the Hawaiian Islands. The book closes with his return to San Francisco and his introduction to the lecture circuit."@en
  • "Mark Twain's ramblings took him all over the American West during the 1860s. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. This is his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of the unforgettable characters he encountered."
  • "Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wordi."@en
  • "Roughing It relays the escapades of Mark Twain as he traversed the American West over a six-year period. Blending the natural with the supernatural, Twain trades off between personal anecdotes and tall tales, using what he calls the West's “vigorous new vernacular; his account is informative as well as humorous."
  • "Books such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have firmly established Mark Twain's reputation as one of the best-loved American humorists, but the author's non-fiction works are packed with as much laughter and keen insight as his popular novels. In the series of essays presented in the volume Roughing It, Twain recounts his years as a soldier, sailor, and speculator in the Wild West."@en
  • "Written in 1872. Humorous account of a trip across the plains to California and then to Hawaii in the early 1860's. Full of grotesque exaggeration, drollery and rollicking spirits."
  • "Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he went to join his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada."@en
  • "Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he went to join his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada."
  • "A classic tour of the wild west In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West?and Roughing It."@en
  • "Semi-autobiographical book of young Mark Twain's travels in the Wild West from 1861-1867. Roughing It is his hilarious record of his travels come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales."
  • ""This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume . . ." Thus begins Mark Twain's Prefatory to Roughing It. The book is a humorous account of Twain's six years spent in Nevada, San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands (as Hawaii was known at the time) and is comprised of various anecdotes and tall tales, told as only Mark Twain can tell them."@en
  • "A humorous account of a trip across the plains to California and then to Hawaii in the early 1860's. The youthful Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West - working as a civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, and traveling lecturer."
  • "Twain's narrative of pioneers striving to establish civilization on the frontier."
  • "This is Mark Twain's experiences on the Western frontier at its wildest and most joyous. It also sums up an era in American life that we can experience directly only through him."@en
  • "Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada."
  • "Mark Twain's account of his transformation into a Westerner when he joins his brother, a newly appointed federal official in Nevada."@en
  • "Originally published over one hundred years ago, Roughing It tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved American writers of all time. The story follows many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer. Through his attempts to strike it rich, he meets a motley crew of colorful people, while weaving through humorous mishaps and standing through it all with the endearingly good humor for which he's famous. The memoir showcases Twain's razor-sharp wit (as well as a healthy imagination), which would later become his trademark style in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of gold hunting, Roughing It makes a classic addition to your Mark Twain library and is a perfect example of how funny the world can be when you're traveling with the right person."@en
  • "The Wild West as Mark Twain lived it In 1861, Mark Twain joined his older brother Orion, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey from Missouri to Carson City, Nevada. Planning to be gone for three months, Twain spent the next “six or seven years” exploring the great American frontier, from the monumental vistas of the Rocky Mountains to the lush landscapes of Hawaii. Along the way, he made and lost a theoretical fortune, danced like a kangaroo in the finest hotels of San Francisco, and came to terms with freezing to death in a snow bank—only to discover, in the light of morning, that he was fifteen steps from a comfortable inn. As a record of the “variegated vagabondizing” that characterized his early years—before he became a national treasure— Roughing It is an indispensable chapter in the biography of Mark Twain. It is also, a century and a half after it was first published, both a fascinating history of the American West and a laugh-out-loud good time."@en
  • "This book is a vigorous protrait of America's frontier days."@en
  • "Mark Twain tells of his years as a young tenderfoot adrift in the Wild West, mixing memoir, reporting, social satire, humorous anecdotes, and tall tales."
  • "An account of the silver-mining fever in the Nevada Territory based on Twain's own experiences."@en
  • ""Twain blends autobiography and tall tale to produce this engaging humorous account of six boisterous years in Nevada, San Francisco, and Hawaii.""@en
  • ""Twain blends autobiography and tall tale to produce this engaging humorous account of six boisterous years in Nevada, San Francisco, and Hawaii.""
  • "In Roughing It our nation's favorite storyteller shares memories of his "vagabondizing" days on the untamed frontier - of curious people, exotic places, hardship, danger - and a whopping dose of good fun."
  • "Two American originals, Mark Twain and the West, come together in this documentary of the author's seven-year "pleasure trip" to the silver mines of Nevada. Twain had originally planned the trip to be a three-month "vacation; " not surprisingly for someone of Twain's temperament, the trip lasted seven years. His journey, like his book, has a way of taking ever-unexpected turns."

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  • "Dummies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Autobiographies"
  • "Autobiographies"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Online resources"@en
  • "Kindle book"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "erindringer"
  • "Dummies (Bookselling)"@en
  • "Publishers' catalogues"@en
  • "Relief prints"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Publishers' advertisements"@en
  • "Pamiętniki amerykańskie"
  • "Reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)"
  • "Blank subscription forms (Publishing)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Gold blocked bindings (Binding)"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)"@en
  • "Reisebericht 1861-1864"
  • "Prospectuses"@en

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  • "Roughing it. 2"
  • "Durch Dick und Dünn"
  • ""Roughing it.""
  • ""Roughing it.""@en
  • "Roughing it part 1 [Electronic resource]"@en
  • "Roughing it ; vol. 1"
  • "Roughing it ; vol. 2"
  • "Roughing it and the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it and the innocents at home"
  • "Roughing it : Volume 1"@en
  • "Im Gold- und Silberland : Lehr- und Wanderjahre 3"
  • "Roughing it. Vol. I"@en
  • "Roughing it, [salesman's dummy]"@en
  • "Roughing It, By Mark Twain Pseud.&gt"@en
  • "Roughing it : in two volumes. 2"
  • "Roughing it : volume 1"
  • "Vita dura"@it
  • "Vita dura"
  • "Roughing It"
  • "Roughing It"@en
  • "Roughing It by Mark Twain"@en
  • "Im Gold und Silberland"
  • "Roughing it and the Innocents at home"
  • "Mes folles années : ["Roughing it"]. Édition préfacée et adaptée par Renaud de Jouvenel"
  • "Durch dick und dünn . Leben auf dem Mississippi"
  • "Mes folles années ["Roughing it"]. Édition préfacée et adaptée par Renaud de Jouvenel, précédée d'un tableau chronologique et suivi d'appendices"
  • "Roughing it ; Vol. 2"
  • "Roughing it. vol i"@en
  • "Roughing it; and, the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing It, Vol. I"
  • "Roughing it ; and, The innocents at home"
  • "Im Gold- und Silberland : Lehr- und Wanderjahre, III"
  • "Roughing it, and, the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it : vol. 2"
  • "Roughing it. Vol. 1"
  • "Roughing it. Volume I"@en
  • "Roughing it. Volume I"
  • "Im Gold- und Silberland : Lehr- und Wanderjahre"
  • "Roughing it : in 2 volumes"
  • "Roughing it : in 2 vol. 2"
  • "Roughing it : and the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it ; and The innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it / 1"
  • "Im Gold- und Silberland Lehr- und Wanderjahre 3"
  • "Roughing It - The Original Classic Edition"@en
  • "Roughing It : vol 2"
  • "Roughing it ; and, the innocents at home"@en
  • "Mes folles années"
  • "Roughing it : Vol. I u. II"
  • "Roughing it : The writings of Mark Twain series"
  • "Roughing it. Volume 1"
  • "Roughing it. Volume 1"@en
  • "Roughing it. Volume 2"
  • "Roughing it"@en
  • "Roughing it"
  • "Roughing it, and, The innocents at home"
  • "Roughing It and the Innocents at Home"@en
  • "Roughing it : [publisher's dummy]"@en
  • "Slita hund"
  • "Slita hund"@sv
  • "Roughing it : vol. 1"
  • "Roughing it by Mark Twain"
  • "Roughing it ; The Innocents at Home"@en
  • "''Roughing it''"@en
  • "Roughing it : [novel]"
  • "Roughing it / Mark Twain ; with a foreword by Leonard Kriegel"@en
  • "Roughing it. : vol. 1"@en
  • "Zindigī-i sakht"
  • "Roughing It and The Innocents At Home"
  • "Roughing it : With an introduction by Henry Nash Smith"
  • "Im Gold- und Silberland"
  • "Roughing it. Vol. 2"
  • "Skildringer og Skitser"@da
  • "Skildringer og Skitser"
  • "Roughin it"@en
  • "Im Gold- u. Silberland"
  • "Roughing it / 2"
  • "Roughing it : and, the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it ; Vol. 1"
  • "Roughing it and The innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it and The innocents at home"
  • "Durch Dick und Dünn. Leben auf dem Mississippi"
  • "'Roughing it'"
  • "In cerca di guai"@it
  • "In cerca di guai"
  • "Roughing it; and the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it, and the innocents at home"@en
  • "Roughing it, and the innocents at home"
  • "Roughing it, volume 1"@en
  • "Roughing it /The innocents at home"
  • "Roughing it in two volumes"
  • "Durch Dick und Dünn ; Leben auf dem Mississippi"
  • "Roughing it.... 1"
  • "Durch dick und dünn"
  • "Roughing it, by Mark Twain"
  • "Roughing it, volume I"
  • "Pod gołym niebem"
  • "Pod gołym niebem"@pl
  • "Roughing it : [prospectus]"@en
  • "Works / 2 Roughing it"
  • "Roughing ist"
  • ""Roughing it""
  • ""Roughing it""@en
  • "Koiranelämää"@fi

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