Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Northeast Plants The Modern Prometheus (1818)

The Modern Prometheus (1818)

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Roughing It (Penguin Classics: American Library) by Mark Twain Northeast Plants The Modern Prometheus (1818)A marvelously vivid, many sided portrait of America's frontier days. Mark Twain's rambling took him all over the American West during teh 1860's. He prospected for gold and silver, speculated on timber and mining stocks, sailed to Hawaii, and worked for a succession of small newspapers. In Roughing It, his fictionalized account of these years, tall tales abound, as do sketches of unforgettable characters: desperadoes, vigilantes, newspapermen,