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Roughing It
Author: Mark Twain
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/06/2011
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
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.