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| Roughing It (American Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Twain
Creator: Hamlin Hill
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 196031
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0140390103
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.403
EAN: 9780140390100
ASIN: 0140390103
Publication Date: March 25, 1982
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 Splurge and Get This Edition June 3, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This edition is the Library of Mark Twain published by the University of California. They are by far the best editions available, but regrettably they are slow in releasing them. You won't be sorry.
 Long full of bull account of Twain's adventures! March 21, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Twain here exhibits his propensity to write, and write, and write... As long and boring as some of this book was, I am glad I read it. His adventures are interesting and more than anything it is a time piece; his inflections and nuances of verb and colloqualisms make for a difficult read, but it is worth it if you have the time. This ain't a thriller
 The undisturbed soul of Mark Twain December 23, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is better than the equivelent of sending Walter Kronkite to the Wild West to investigate it's doings. Mark Twain, ever the great poet/humorist, embarks into the real world of the West with as much excitement and curiosity as you or I would have via an Overland Stagecoach. While he is at this occupation, he develops a dozen more, including propecting and newpaper reporting, being destitute, and being fabulously rich. Everywhere his gaze is turned is carefully recorded and sent 'back-home' to you and I as though it were a personal letter through the post! His humor and insight is actually the finest of his entire career; the personal feeling, yearning, passion, and pathos of his descriptions are more poetic than the bards of all time. On his journey from Springfield, Missouri, to find out what life will become--and with WHAT, and IN what--he accompanies his brother Orion, just appointed secretary to the Governor of the Nevada territories by President Lincoln, to conveniently become the secretary's secretary. An occupation, predictably short-lived. Upon arrival young Sam Clemens, a recent riverboat pilot turned Confederate Soldier gone AWOL is as set free as a snake from a cardboard box. No one on earth could have taken advantage of the wild possibilities that beckoned from the new frontier better than Sam Clemens. Sam was as a man gone there intentionally in a time machine and was exultant to begin his plans---and coming-up with them on his arrival. He wrote home that he would never return to Missouri until he had become a rich man, and THAT from the silver mines that peppered the entire mountain ranges of Nevada of that day. One has the incredible opportunity to view through Mark Twain's eyes the true West and at the same time view Mark Twain and what influence it was having upon HIM. At just the saving moment of the demise of his grandiose plans he becomes a newspaper correspondent from Hawaii, and, without ever having the knowledge himself, explores from one American frontier to the next. While in Hawaii he wrote in unparalelled prose the majesty he witnessed there. He tells of the history and collects the information that would later become the substance of his first lecture tour, and what would become the most celbrated literary career in the 19th century, and to some: of all time. This is Mark Twain's finest book.
Passel o' Lies November 4, 1998
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book has more lies in it than any book except the Bible, which is longer. For that reason (and many others) it is one of the best descriptions of the old West that has ever been written.
Satyricon of the West January 21, 1997
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Before Clint Eastwood tore apart the mythic West in Unforgiven, Mark Twain's travelogue/novel portrayed the West as a humorous, amorally violent, rapacious, and racist land of opportunity, not all of it good. Most people would characterize the West like that now: testament to the staying power of Twain's prose. The "Genuine Mexican Plug" and "Lost in the Snow" episodes are magnificient. Roughing It also acts as a satirical outrider for Huck Finn. If you want the feel of a stage-coach, read the first section whenever you travel, just as George Plimpton does in his Introduction.
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