Roughing it (Mark Twain Library)

by Mark Twain (Author), HarrietElinorSmith (Author), EdgarMarquessBranch (Author), Lin Salamo (Author), RobertPackBrowning (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $28.50

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.44

• New

  Paperback
  1982

  $16.43

  A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.