Author: Samuel ClemensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing it
Author: Samuel ClemensThe Pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing it
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : American letters
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Pattern for Mark Twain's "Roughing It"
Author: Samuel Langhorne ClemensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing it: letters from Nevada by S. and O. Clemens, 1861-1862, collected and ed
Author: Mark TwainThe Pattern for Mark Twain's Roughing It. Letters from Nevada by Samuel and Orion Clemens, 1861-1862. Collected and Edited with an Introduction by Franklin R. Rogers
Author: Samuel Langhorne ClemensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Roughing it
Author: Mark TwainPublisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Roughing It
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736407076
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
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; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada—a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification. THE AUTHOR.
The Pattern for Mark Twains's Roughing it
Author: Mark TwainRoughing It
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520914636
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Based on Mark Twain's own years of "variegated vagabonding" in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography--even statistics. This new critical edition of Roughing Itsupersedes the 1972 edition published in the Works of Mark Twain over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West. This edition includes the more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book. Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure. Editorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.
Author: Mark Twain