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1) Roughing it
Author
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed literary biographer Roy Morris carefully sorts fact from fiction to tell the story of a young genius finding his voice in the ramshackle mining camps, boomtowns, and newspaper offices of the wild and woolly West, while the Civil War rages half a continent away.
Series
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Rick Bass -- Matt Braun -- Peggy Pond Church -- J. California Cooper -- J. Frank Dobie -- Gretel Ehrlich -- William Everson (Brother Antoninus) -- Tess Gallagher -- Zane Grey -- A.B. Guthrie Jr. -- John Haines -- Gerald Haslam -- Paul Horgan -- Emerson Hough -- William Humphrey -- David Henry Hwang -- Robinson Jeffers -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- William Kittredge -- Jack London -- Frederick Manfred -- Thomas McGuane -- D'Arcy McNickle -- Kenneth Rexroth...
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