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Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was also a skilled chronicler of his own life and experiences In his youth, Twain traveled extensively throughout the untamed American West with his brother, working his way from town to town in a variety of jobs, including gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer. Roughing It is Twain's personal recollection of his wanderlust years. It is a wildly humorous adventure yarn that combines hard facts with a healthy dose of the author's unique perspective, one that helped define the course of American literature.

Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Roughing It has been prepared by Professor Henry B. Wonham of the University of Oregon. It includes his introduction, notes, selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs..
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Based on a series of letters Mark Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent, The Innocents Abroad (1869) is a burlesque of the sentimental travel books popular in the mid-nineteenth century. Twain's fresh and humorous perspective on hallowed European landmarks lacked reverence for the past-the ancient statues of saints on the Cathedral of Notre Dame are "battered and broken-nosed old fellows" and tour guides "interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling." Equally irreverent about American manners (including his own) as he is about European attitudes, Twain ultimately concludes that, for better or worse, "human nature is very much the same all over the world." .
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o Includes all 304 first-edition illustrations by True Williams, Edward F. Mullen, and others

o Provides the first and only text that adheres to the author's wishes in details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, restored from original sources.

o Features expert annotation, specially prepared maps, facsimile manuscript pages, and other supplementary documents

o Reproduces the text and notes of the Mark Twain Project's 1993 edition, winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for a "Distinguished Scholarly Edition"

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..
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Table of Contents

List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
Mark Twain Biography

Novels:
1601
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The American Claimant
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
A Dog's Tale
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
The Gilded Age
A Horse's Tale
The Mysterious Stranger
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
The Prince and the Pauper
Those Extraordinary Twins
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom Sawyer Detective
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Short stories:
Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Extracts from Adam's Diary
Eve's Diary
The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
A Letter from Santa Claus
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
The Stolen White Elephant
The War Prayer

Short story collections:
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories (16 Stories)
Sketches New and Old (62 Stories)
The 30,000 Dollar Bequest (26 Stories)
Letters from the Earth

Essays:
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Christian Science
Concerning the Jews
The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches
Essays on Paul Bourget
Fenimore Cooper's Literary offences
In Defence of Harriet Shelley
What Is Man? And Other Essays

Non fiction:
Editorial Wild Oats
Following The Equater
The Innocents Abroad
Life on the Mississippi
The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
Roughing It
A Tramp Abroad
Is Shakespeare Dead?

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This unique '10 books in 1' edition of Mark Twain's original works contains the following complete books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn', 'Tom Sawyer Abroad', 'Tom Sawyer, Detective', 'Life On The Mississippi', 'The Prince and The Pauper', 'The Tradegy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson', 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court', 'Roughing It' and 'Following The Equator'. These are classic works which have delighted generations of American children and adults alike. An ideal gift for any fan of the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain. The entire set is available in this single, great value, edition!.
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What if you could close your eyes and open them to find you were amongst hundreds of pioneers in 1843, packing up your covered wagon to travel the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail? Meet twins Liz and Lenny and their unique grandmother, who, with the help of her magic hat, can transport the twins to any time in history. In their first journey, the twins spend eight months crossing the country on foot and by covered wagon, braving the mountain ranges and river valleys, battling floods and droughts, and cooking slam-johns and sowbellies over buffalo chips.

Diane Stanley's spirited, humorous, and historically accurate depiction of day-to-day life on the Oregon Trail is brought to life with Holly Berry's energetic illustrations. Overflowing with fun, informative details, and word balloons that capture each piece of dialogue, young readers will be transported into an exciting page in American history alongside the adventurous Time-Traveling Twins.

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Backyard Roughing It Easy is packed with creative ideas for sharing quality time outdoors with loved ones, plus marvelous recipes and simple ways to turn ordinary household items into usable outdoor gear. 50+ illustrations..
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