ROUGHING IT
Language: English
Published by Reader's Digest Association, 1994
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- Hardcover
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421pp. Illus. are those by eminent artists created for the first edition in 1872. Afterword by Scott Russell Sanders. Twain "went west" as many others did, looking for adventure, and shares in Roughing It his memories of those times. One of a series of deluxe collectible editions of modern-day classics - full text, brown leatherette backstrip in contrast to tan leatherette covers, with brown lettering and design. (Loc R33/1).
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- Title
- ROUGHING IT
- Author
- Twain, Mark
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest Association
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0895776286
- ISBN 13
- 9780895776280
- Edition
- Deluxe Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
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Review
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer.
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