
Roughing It
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Narrated by:
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Grover Gardner
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By:
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Mark Twain
In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. Roughing It is a hilarious record of his travels over a six-year period that comes to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales. Twain reflects on his scuffling years mining silver in Nevada, working at a Virginia City newspaper, being downandout in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.
This humorous account is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the “vigorous new vernacular” of the West.
Selling 75,000 copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of “wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration” whose satiric humor made “pretension and false dignity ridiculous.” Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, this text adheres to the author’s wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation.
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Excellent Reading of a Classic
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Besides that it gives a lengthy story of a bunch of random events through life or rather mid to later life. Particular interests were how rough life was and simpler in some aspects. Pretty neat listen overall.
Interesting look into life in the 1800s
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Time Traveling
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Love Grover Gardner's Narration
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Excellent audible book
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The book itself is very funny, of course, though it's episodic and a bit hit or miss.
Grover Gardner is excellent
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Completely loved this book And its narrator
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Enjoyable listen, but way too long...
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Grover Gardner is fantastic
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Great!
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