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Title: Roughing It
Condition: New
Author: Mark Twain
Contributor: Harriet E. Smith (Edited by), Edgar Marquess Branch (Edited by), Lin Salamo (Edited by), Robert Browning (Edited by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0520084985
EAN: 9780520084988
ISBN: 9780520084988
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Travel & Transport
Release Date: 13/01/1994
Description: Based on Mark Twain's own years of 'variegated vagabonding' in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography - even statistics. This new critical edition of "Roughing It" supersedes the 1972 edition published in the Works of Mark Twain over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West. This edition includes more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book.Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure. Editorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 56mm
Item Weight: 1542g
Book Series: Works of Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Year: 1994

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