Roughing It
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By Mark Twain, Harriet E. Smith (Editor), Edgar Marquess Branch (Editor), Lin Salamo (Editor), Robert Browning (Editor), True W. Williams (Illustrator), Edward F. Mullen (Illustrator)
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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 ...






















