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Review: Roughing It, Vol 1

User Review - Joan - Goodreads

This year I have been reading a lot of older books I missed. Mark Twain's Roughing It was most enjoyable. He starts out as a very young man traveling west to Silver City Nevada and tells many tales along the way. Give insight to his life and times in Nevada, California and Hawaii. Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - hamptonenglish10 - Goodreads

Joshua Aippersbach Ms.Brooks English 10 07 January, 2013 Roughing It is mainly about a young man named Mark Twain is on an adventure west on a stage coach. After a brief time of being a Confederate ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - John Harder - Goodreads

Twain has always confessed to being lazy, but for a slug, he was always on the move and prolific with his pen � Roughing it is a primary example. This wonderful travel book is history disguised as a ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It, Vol 1

User Review - Darcy - Goodreads

My edition includes volumes 1-3 I believe. It's a free downloaded copy from Project Gutenberg. Since reading Roots by Alex Haley I have been interested in my family's history and I am hoping to get an ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - Catherine Woodman - Goodreads

Mark Twain did a series of memoirs about his travel experiences, and I had never read any of them prior to this year. One of my sons is taking a Mark Twain class, and I have been reading the books ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - Harrison - Goodreads

Who would have thought Mark Twain could actually be funny! It's a shame most students' first exposure to him is through Huck Finn, which I found to be much less accessible than this book, which was ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - John Falch - Goodreads

It's got some good parts, some boring parts and some hysterically funny parts. "Roughing It" is basically bits and pieces of a young Mark Twain's journeys through the American old west and Hawaii. It ... Read full review

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - Goodreads

As other reviewers have said, this should have really been a much shorter book. It's about Twain's time in the Nevada territory, with some short excursions to other locales, but the last third of the ...

Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)

User Review - Goodreads

I feel inadequate to finding the words to recommend this book. It is one of those books that I have read so many times I can nearly recite it. Here is the young Sam Clemens heading from Missouri to ...