Roughing It
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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.
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Twain, M., & Gardner, G. (2012). Roughing It. Unabridged. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark and Grover, Gardner. 2012. Roughing It. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark and Grover, Gardner, Roughing It. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Twain, Mark, and Grover Gardner. Roughing It. Unabridged. Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
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| duration | 15h 46m 0s |
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| dateLastUpdated | Oct 05, 2025 06:11:06 PM |
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| Last Grouped Work Modification Time | Nov 06, 2025 01:19:05 AM |
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