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Roughing It

Autor Mark Twain Editat de Richard S. Hartmetz
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Written as a prequel to his highly-successful first book, "Innocents Abroad," Mark Twain continued to excel in the area of humorous travelogues, with an engaging blend of tall tales and autobiography, that will dazzle the reader. Spending six years journeying around the Wild West, San Francisco, Nevada, and Hawaii, a young Twain, fresh from a stint as a Confederate soldier, hopped aboard a stagecoach, and headed out with his brother, Orion, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory. Along the way, he visited Salt Lake City, prospected for gold, and became a writer. Join us for an early dose of Twain's rough-hewn humor, in the full-version of this classic adventure.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781496029546
ISBN-10: 1496029542
Pagini: 500
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

Notă biografică

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.

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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. This text intends to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation.