Review: Roughing It, Vol 1
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Joan - GoodreadsThis 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)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - hamptonenglish10 - GoodreadsJoshua 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)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Thom Swennes - GoodreadsMark Twain's seven year adventures in the west culminated in his writing and publishing his trip in the novel Roughing It. He embarks on this westward expedition when the Civil War was raging on the ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Catherine Woodman - GoodreadsMark 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)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - GoodreadsTwain's sense of humor is uncanny. I am amazed by how much of this book is still funny. And not just funny. It's portrayal of the Old West is romantic and thrilling, yet tinged with ennui. Twain ...
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - John P - GoodreadsWith appendices, notes, supplements, maps and illustrations together augmenting the book size by around 50%, this volume is loaded with information. It 'documents' a long trip to what would become the ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Lyn - GoodreadsJust finished Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical work about the American west in the 1860's. I know that most every student in most every American Lit 301 class is instructed that Melville's Moby Dick ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Elissa - GoodreadsA great book that gives a lively, comical history of all the places I know, as Twain goes adventuring out west in the rolicking 1860's. The sketches of the characters he meets are golden, the slang he ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Adam - GoodreadsThis was the first book I read while on a month long sojourn in northern California. Living with the dog in a yurt in the wilderness, this was the perfect storm from one adventurer to another. Twain's ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Kris - GoodreadsAs any kid with a Missouri education, I'd had plenty of exposure to Twain, but it had always been his more well-known fiction (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn) that we'd read in class. This book, a nonfiction ... Read full review
