Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-01-15
Total Pages: 886
ISBN-13: 0520268172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mark Twain's 'imaginative interpretation' of his experience as a prospector, miner, journalist in the West in Nevada, California, and the Sandwich Islands, and finally as a lecturer in 1866. It was in the West that Twain found and eventually accepted his vocation as a humorist and teller of tall tales.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2020-05-04
Total Pages: 686
ISBN-13: 3846051764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870-71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad. Roughing It is dedicated to Twain's mining companion Calvin H. Higbie, later a civil engineer who died in 1914.Personal growth is a generally present theme for Mark Twain as well. Demonstrating a desire for learning, he seeks to find nuggets of education at all levels of life. His fear of the inability to speak publicly and with confidence is overcome by the success that he achieves while delivering a lecture in San Francisco.