Roughing It
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1532970277 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 482 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification.. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. 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 affli
"Its worth the trip" according to Lionel D. Youst. Every one has read anthologized parts of Roughing it, but few have read the entire book. It is not a novel. It is a novelistic memoir, part fiction, part factual record with many tall tales and a pretty good joke thrown in from time to time. In places it provides a good supplement to the history books. His accounts of the trip by stage across the west, his time in. "Along comes "Roughing It" very funny! Now I get Mark Twain the American Humorist" according to D. H. Nathan. The only Mark Twain I ever read was Huck Finn and Ton Sawyer, there was humor there but it was subtle and vague to a 9 year old boy. Along comes "Roughing It" very funny! Now I get Mark Twain the American Humorist! Very good! The Kindle Edition however SUCKS an there are NO illustrations and with every new chapter you get a page that looks like you started over to. Nate said The First American Road Novel. The first American road novel is not only an entertaining read but a detailed account of an era long past. All American writers can (or should) point to Twain as a major influence; the following passages contain hints of what would later become Jack Kerouac and Hunter Thompson:"I never had been away from home, and that word 'travel' had a seductive charm for me. P