{"product_id":"2940015700640","title":"Roughing It by Mark Twain, Complete (with improved formatting)","description":"• The book has been proof-read and corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• All our books with improved formatting and links to chapters\u003cbr\u003eThis book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history\u003cbr\u003eor a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of\u003cbr\u003evariegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting\u003cbr\u003ereader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad\u003cbr\u003ehim with science. Still, there is information in the volume; information\u003cbr\u003econcerning an interesting episode in the history of the Far West, about\u003cbr\u003ewhich no books have been written by persons who were on the ground in\u003cbr\u003eperson, and saw the happenings of the time with their own eyes. I allude\u003cbr\u003eto the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada\u003cbr\u003e-a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind,\u003cbr\u003ethat has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely\u003cbr\u003eto occur in it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the\u003cbr\u003ebook. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped:\u003cbr\u003einformation appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar\u003cbr\u003eof roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would\u003cbr\u003egive worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I calk\u003cbr\u003eup the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore,\u003cbr\u003eI can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not\u003cbr\u003ejustification.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTHE AUTHOR","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170965176560,"sku":"2940015700640","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015700640_p0.jpg?v=1763623374","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015700640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}