品牌：Mark Twain
基本信息
·出版社：Penguin Classics
·页码：592 页码
·出版日：1981年
·ISBN：0140390103
·条码：9780140390100
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：The Penguin American Library
内容简介
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In his youth Mark Twain drifted through the West. He worked as a civil servant, gold prospector, reporter, lecturer. ROUGHING IT is Twain's record--fact and impression--of those early years.Twain tried his luck at everything. He disputed with vigilantes; crossed Slade the Terrible, whose equally terrible wife shot not from the hip but from the petticoat; met people famous and obscure, from Brigham Young, the ambitious Mormon leader, to Hank Erickson, a farmer who sought advice on turnips from Horace Greeley and fulminated against him because he could not decipher the answer.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介
Harriet Elinor Smith,Lin Salamo, andRobert Pack Browningare editors with the Mark Twain Project in The Bancroft Library.Edgar Marquess Branchis Professor Emeritus of English at Miami University.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain'sRoughing Itis just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.Roughing Ittells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue,"Roughing Itis informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.Roughing Itis informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter.Roughing Itis wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
In this 1872, Twain reminisces about his five years of roaming around the country from 1861 to 1866. This edition contains the complete original text plus the original illustrations. Though pricey, this volume should be considered for collections specializing in Twain.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Alan Gribben,Mississippi Quarterly,Fall 1994, reprinted Spring 1995
"The reproductions of the original illustrations show off the drawings far better than surviving copies of the first edition. . . . Incredible fidelity to Twain's intentions, publications, and milieux."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Alan Gribben,Mississippi Quarterly,Fall 1994, reprinted Spring 1995
"The reproductions of the original illustrations show off the drawings far better than surviving copies of the first edition. . . . Incredible fidelity to Twain's intentions, publications, and milieux."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Stephen Fender,The Times Literary Supplement,3 June 1994
"The new explanatory notes are themselves an education in the social and historical contexts of midcentury Nevada, California and Hawaii and the routes Mark Twain traversed in order to get there. Harriet Smith's introduction is both lucid and massively informative."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Stephen Fender,The Times Literary Supplement,3 June 1994
"The new explanatory notes are themselves an education in the social and historical contexts of midcentury Nevada, California and Hawaii and the routes Mark Twain traversed in order to get there."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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