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The innocents abroad ; Roughing it, Mark Twain ; [Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume]

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The innocents abroad ; Roughing it, Mark Twain ; [Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume]
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The innocents abroad ; Roughing it
Responsibility statement
Mark Twain ; [Guy Cardwell wrote the notes and selected the texts for this volume]
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
Target audience
adult
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