{"product_id":"2940169908350","title":"Roughing It","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West. \u003cem\u003eRoughing It\u003c\/em\u003e 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 down-and-out in San Francisco, reporting for a newspaper from Hawaii, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis humorous account is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the ¿vigorous new vernacular¿ of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelling seventy-five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, \u003cem\u003eRoughing It \u003c\/em\u003ewas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102134092016,"sku":"2940169908350","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169908350_p0.jpg?v=1769902450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169908350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}