{"product_id":"roughing-it-paperback-4","title":"Roughing It - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eMark Dawidziak\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated author of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as \"a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer.\"*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. \u003ci\u003eRoughing It \u003c\/i\u003eis the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything--and usually failed. Twain's encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With an Introduction by Elizabeth Frank*\u003cbr\u003e And a New Afterword by Mark Dawidziak\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his person and in his pursuits, \u003cb\u003eMark Twain \u003c\/b\u003e(1835-1910) was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental--and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Frank\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eCheat and Charmer\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) as well as the biography \u003ci\u003eLouise Bogan: A Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. She is also the author of two art monographs, \u003ci\u003eJackson Pollock\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and \u003ci\u003eEsteban Vincente \u003c\/i\u003e(1995). A translator of contemporary Bulgarian fiction, she is the Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages \u0026amp; Literature at Bard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Dawidziak \u003c\/b\u003eis the television critic for the \u003ci\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer.\u003c\/i\u003e A theater, film and television reviewer for more than thirty-five years, his many books include \u003ci\u003eMark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eHorton Foote's The Shape of the River: The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eMark Twain in Ohio \u003c\/i\u003e(2015) and \u003ci\u003eMark Twain's Guide to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, Fashion, Investment, Romance, Health and Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e (2015). The co-founder and artistic director of northeast Ohio's Largely Literary Theater Company, he has been portraying Mark Twain on stage since 1979 (the makeup process getting shorter each year). He also frequently performs Mark Twain material with his wife, actress Sara Showman, in their two-person show \u003ci\u003eTwain By Two\u003c\/i\u003e. He has three times been the guest scholar at the Center for Mark Twain Studies.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 6.6 x 4.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughing It\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.8\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 30\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178360652025,"sku":"9780451531100","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/bDBlVCtvekc4SzhZS2M2ZlNoTmhmZz09.webp?v=1767723088","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/roughing-it-paperback-4","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}