| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 46 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by Grover Gardner. |
| Summary |
In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being down-and-out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more. This humorous account 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 original sources, this text adheres to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
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West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
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| Added Author |
Gardner, Grover. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781483090450 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1483090450 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10025331 |
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