Roughing It (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1872
- Type of Work: Fictionalized autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Travel writing, Adventure
- Subjects: Wives, Nineteenth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Mines, miners, or mining, Frontier or pioneer life, Vigilantes, Mormons, Humorists, Wilderness
Critical Evaluation:
Roughing It is a partly fictional account of Mark Twain’s travel to the Nevada Territory and to California, his varied life there, colorful personalities encountered, and his visit to the Hawaiian Islands (then called the Sandwich Islands). Interspersed throughout are factual and semifactual journalistic reports, as well as tall tales. The book covers Mark Twain’s stagecoach trip with his brother Orion Clemens, the newly appointed secretary of the Nevada Territory, from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Carson City, Nevada (July to August, 1861);...
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