Mark Twains Virginia City

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Nevada Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780913814789
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Virginia City Nevada written by Mark Twain and published by Nevada Publications. This book was released on 1986-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of chapters excerpted from Mark Twain's famous classic book 'Roughing it' with contemporary illustrations.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896460744
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Virginia City written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1982-02 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Williams
Publisher : River Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by George Williams and published by River Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the account of Mark Twain's early mining days and the beginning of his long literary career.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Nevada Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780913814840
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Virginia City, Nevada written by Mark Twain and published by Nevada Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a nice, little (191 p.) abridged version of Twain's longer work, Roughing It, which focuses just on his experiences in Nevada. It begins with his journey to Carson City accompanying his brother who has come to work in the new territorial government and goes on to recount his first days there and numerous adventures to surrounding mining areas, including a fascinating description of a 'virgin' Mono Lake. The latter part of the book is devoted to his time in Virginia City as a reporter for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper and his accounts of life in that rough and tumble boomtown. I give the book a blended rating of 4: the narrative and writing is typical Twain -- superb and a solid 5; however the production quality of the book is mediocre, no better than a 2 or 3. It appears to be a reproduction (read copy) of an old 1800's era printing; the text quality is poor with some missing or blurred characters. These flaws are partially redeemed by the inclusion of numerous (almost one every other page) pen and ink drawings depicting scenes and characters from the book. Overall this is an entertaining recollection of old West life from a master storyteller and enough towhet one's appetite for the lengthier original.

Author : Paul Fatout
Publisher : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain in Virginia City written by Paul Fatout and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Antonucci
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781463765699
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairest Picture written by David C. Antonucci and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairest Picture is the book Mark Twain fans and Lake Tahoe enthusiasts have longed for. For the first time, a single volume brings together Mark Twain and his favorite lake, Lake Tahoe. Inside you will find little known facts and newly discovered information about Mark Twain's experiences and adventures at Lake Tahoe that cannot be found in any other books or on the web. You will read about Mark Twain's Lake Tahoe of the early 1860s, how it is different today and still the same in many ways. We solve the riddle of where Mark Twain was camped and located his timber claim on the North Shore, exactly as he told the story in Roughing It and letters home. We describe Mark Twain's subsequent trips to Lake Tahoe as a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise and locate the hotels where he stayed and what he did while he was here as a tourist. We provide maps and directions to 12 Mark Twain places at Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area so that scholars and enthusiasts can visit these sites, see what Mark Twain saw and experience the same feelings that inspired him to write so eloquently about the lake. Inside is a complete listing of all known Mark Twain quotations about Lake Tahoe in his writings and lectures together with interpretation and context. We closely examine and debunk the many myths and tall tales about Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe and in particular, the often repeated East Shore timber claim legend. Readers will have a much deeper appreciation Mark Twain and the Lake Tahoe region, a place where he found his voice as a writer and humorist and went on to become one of America's greatest authors.

Author : Ben Tarnoff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143126962
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bohemians written by Ben Tarnoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America—and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain’s arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this group biography introduces readers to the other young eccentric writers seeking to create a new American voice at the country’s edge—literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protector of the group. Ben Tarnoff’s elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering writers helped spread the Bohemian movement throughout the world, transforming American literature along the way. “Tarnoff’s book sings with the humor and expansiveness of his subjects’ prose, capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America’s frontier.” -- The New Yorker “Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... Mr. Tarnoff’s ultimate thesis is a strong one, strongly expressed: that together these writers ‘helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current’.” -- Wall Street Journal

Author : Katharine Hillyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain, Young Reporter in Virginia City written by Katharine Hillyer and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Jay Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780753804582
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Mark Twain written by Andrew Jay Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, definitive biography explores the revealing and resonant contradictions between the true character of Samuel Clemens and his self-created alter ego, Mark Twain. Richly detailed and filled with new information from primary sources, Inventing Mark Twain traces an extraordinary life that led from Mississippi steamboats to the California goldfields to cultural immortality as America's national philosopher.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-07 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.