19th century american literature
A01=Mark Twain
american civil war
american literature
american west
Author_Mark Twain
autobiography
beast fables
brothers
Category=DNL
Category=WTLC
cavalry
confederacy
confederate army
cross country travel
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_travel
folklore
geography
gold prospecting
hawaii
humor
humorous
illustrated text
kingdom of hawaii
local color
militiaman
mining companion
prospector
real estate speculation
salt lake city
samuel clemens
semi-autobiographical literature
silver prospecting
stagecoach
tall tales
travel literature
travelogue
wild west
Product details
- ISBN 9780520084988
- Weight: 1542g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Based on Mark Twain's own years of 'variegated vagabonding' in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography - even statistics. This new critical edition of "Roughing It" supersedes the 1972 edition published in the Works of Mark Twain over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West. This edition includes more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book.
Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure. Editorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.
Harriet Elinor Smith, Lin Salamo, and Robert Pack Browning are editors with the Mark Twain Project in The Bancroft Library. Edgar Marquess Branch is Professor Emeritus of English at Miami University.
