{"product_id":"roughing-it-9780520084988","title":"Roughing It","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBased on Mark Twain's own years of \"variegated vagabonding\" in the West, this comic narrative offers a virtual grab-bag of tall tales, folklore, beast fables, travelogue, local color, autobiography, history, geography—even statistics. This new critical edition of \u003ci\u003eRoughing It\u003c\/i\u003esupersedes the 1972 edition published in the \u003ci\u003eWorks of Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e over twenty years ago. It is an entirely new undertaking, by a different group of editors. Together they have made extensive use of newly discovered historical and textual materials, particularly biographical documents which illuminate how Mark Twain gave literary shape to his actual experiences in the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes the more than 300 illustrations Mark Twain commissioned for his book. It also provides six new maps: two for Nevada in the 1860s and four to help trace the Clemens brothers' cross-country stagecoach route. The editors provide a comprehensive introduction that will supplant all previous accounts of how Mark Twain wrote and revised his second long book. Fully supplemented by the textual apparatus, the edition presents a complete record of Twain's revisions and is sure to become the standard text of Mark Twain's great Western adventure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by a generous gift from the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mark Twain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959881240694,"sku":"9780520084988","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/roughing-it-9780520084988","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}