Mark Twain: Roughing It | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9788028523411 | Roughing It | Mark Twain | Taschenbuch | Englisch | Copycat

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In Roughing It, Mark Twain transforms his 1861 journey westward into a sprawling, comic narrative of frontier America, blending travel writing, memoir, tall tale, and social satire. The book follows stagecoach travel across the Plains, silver-mining speculation in Nevada, journalism in Virginia City, and encounters in California and Hawaii, all rendered in Twain's characteristically nimble prose. Its literary style moves between vivid anecdote and hyperbolic humor, yet beneath the wit lies a shrewd account of national expansion, opportunism, and illusion in the post-Gold Rush American West. As such, it stands as an important companion to Twain's Innocents Abroad and an early major work in the development of his vernacular art. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Twain drew directly on his own restless early adulthood for this book. Before becoming America's most celebrated humorist, he worked as a printer, river pilot, miner, and journalist; these occupations furnished him with firsthand knowledge of ambition, failure, improvisation, and regional speech. Roughing It reflects both autobiographical memory and the professional instincts of a writer already adept at shaping lived experience into national literature. Readers interested in American realism, western mythmaking, or the evolution of Twain's comic voice will find Roughing It indispensable. It is at once entertaining, historically revealing, and central to understanding how Twain turned adventure into literature.

Produktart:	Reiseberichte
Region:	Reiseerzählungen
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028523411
ISBN-10:	8028523412
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Twain, Mark
Hersteller:	Copycat
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Mark Twain
Gewicht:	0,44 kg