Roughing It, Mark Twain
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Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/06/2011


Synopsis

In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a sixyear period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more. This humorous account 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, this text adheres to the authors wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation.

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