Roughing It

Beschreibung

There is some shelf-wear, some light creases on front diagonally from left front and left lower. With a foreword by Leonard Kriegel. From the back cover, " In his youth, Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West--working as a civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, and traveling lecturer. 'Roughing It' is the inimitable record--fact and impression--of those early years.Twain tried his luck at anything and everything. He writes hilariously of his encounters with vigilantes; with Slade the Terrible, whose wife toted guns that blazed from under her petticoats; Brigham Young, the ambitious Mormon Leader; Hank Erickson, who wrote for advice on Horace Greeley, and vowed advice on turnips to Horace Greeley and vowed revenge because he could not decipher the latter's answer. "So we see Mark Twain, the playboy, the pioneer in letters, the strayed letters, the strayed reveler, the leader of the herd, giving and taking with a hearty liberality, all inside the folk-feeling of his time, holding the American nation in the hollow of his hand." ---Van Wyck, Brooks ,

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000486

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Roughing It

Verlag

Signet Classic Mentor, Classic, Plume by the New American Classics, New York, NY

Erscheinungsjahr

1962

Sprache

Englisch

Einband

Soft cover

Zustand

Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

No Jacket

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