My Watch
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Clocks and watches
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Clocks and watches
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2020-05
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My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel" had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Boys
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Author : Jeffrey Alan Melton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2002-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0817311602
Grounding this study in tourist theory, Melton explores how, in five travel books, Twain captures the birth and growth of a new creature who would go on to change the map of the world: the American tourist."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 1869
Category :
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3846051764
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
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ISBN :
The celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn mixes fact and fiction in a rousing travelogue that serves as "a portrait of the artist as a young adventurer."* 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. Roughing It is 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.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 1981-12-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0140390103
A marvelously vivid, many-sided portrait of America's frontier days. Mark Twain's rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860's. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. In Roughing It, his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of unforgettable characters: desperadoes, vigilantes, newspapermen, Mormons, and prospectors. Twain's Debt to the burlesque styling of regional humorists and his celebrated gift for accurately rendering regional speech are never more in evidence than here, but as Hamlin Hill points out in his introduction, Roughing It must also be read as Twain's renunciation of his footloose bachelorhood, his rejection of the mythic, romanticized image of the West, and his autopsy of the American dream. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American fiction
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