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Roughing It
Roughing It
Author: Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens
"This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume ....  more »
ISBN-13: 9781598180404
ISBN-10: 1598180401
Publication Date: 11/1/2006
Pages: 376
Reading Level: All Ages
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Publisher: Aegypan
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 3
A thoughly enjoyable view of the frontier west, and introduction to an emerging genius of American writing. Twain is well informed, honest, and surprisingly prudish is his role as storyteller, but always intent on keeping his reader interested. Good Read!
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Helpful Score: 1
A little to autobiographical for my taste, but still a classic
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This is a chronicle of Twain's journey through the then wild western part of the US and on to Hawaii. The domestic complement to Innocents Abroad
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Mark Twain at his satiric and hilarious best - taking on America's west of the 1860s and the colorful characters he met, and the off-beat adventures he had.



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