Roughing It (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421807652)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information concerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about which no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in person, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada -a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I calk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification.

Author: Mark Twain
ISBN-10: 1421807653
ISBN-13: 9781421807652
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2005
Pages: 620
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.8
Point Value: 30
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 60044 / Roughing It