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Roughing It

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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. 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."

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9788832579840 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher JH ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6972022 ● Copy protection without

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