Roughing It - Vol I And II de Mark Twain

Roughing It - Vol I And II

Mark Twain

This vintage book contains both volumes of Mark Twain's 1872 memoir, 'Roughing It'. Prefaced with the warning that "when he was young, he could remember it - whether it happened or not", this memoir covers the period from 1862 to 1870. It contains details of Twain's time in the West, where he worked as a miner and dabbled with other risky situations, including dining with a notorious gunman. This marvellous memoir is infused with the humour and wisdom that Twain is famous for, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of his seminal work. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pseudonym, Mark Twain, was a seminal American writer and humourist. This antiquarian book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter, which failed because of its complexity and imprecision. In the wake of these financial setbacks, he filed for protection from his creditors via bankruptcy, and with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers eventually overcame his financial troubles. Twain chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal responsibility to do so.