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Roughing It|Mark Twain

Overview

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."

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  • ISBN-13: 9781987433432
  • ISBN-10: 1987433432
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: April 2018
  • Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.67 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
  • Page Count: 322

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