num_pages: 885
description: 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." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It  must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.
language: English
title: Roughing It
titlecomplete: Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)
characters: Alexander Davis, Mr. Jules, Dr. Owens, Mr. Higbie, Mr. Curry, Col. Jack, Marshall Rodgers, John B. Winters, Winthrop L. Willis, J. A. Slade, Mr. W., Roop, Mr. Ben Holliday, Dollinger, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens, King Liholiho, Kamehameha I, Miss Jacops, Oliphant, George Gumbert, J. Smith, William Kanui, Mrs. C. V. Waite, Markiss, Mr. Arkansas, Kaahumanu, Ned Blakely, Mr. Van Dorn, Bill Noakes, Mr. Blucher, Young Claggett <sic>, Martin Harris, Scotty Briggs, Judge Cradlebaugh, John James Godfrey, Sile Hawkins, Buck Fanshaw, Mrs. Beazely, Miss Wagner, Kalaimoku, Joe McGee, Ollendorff, Philip Lynch, Tom Reeder, Mrs. O'Flannigan, Jules Beni, Mormondom, Uncle Lem, Mr. Street, John H. Morgan, Mr. Dimsdale, Buncombe, Mr. Ballou, SIMON ERICKSON
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Travel, Literature, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century, Humor, Westerns
ratings_count: 9265
places: Overland City, Mount Davidson, Coriantumr
publisher: University of California Press