Roughing It - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451512162 ISBN 13: 9780451512161

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1962

Synopsis

Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad," in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise, "Roughing It" documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867.

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About the Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental���and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called ���the Lincoln of our literature.���

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1962
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451512162
• ISBN 13: 9780451512161
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 488