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No Ordinary English: Gertrude Stein Defines Literacy, Nicole Williams, Amanda Morrish
No Ordinary English: Gertrude Stein Defines Literacy, Nicole Williams, Amanda Morrish
Undergraduate Review
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The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd
Mark Twain's Roughing It: A Humorist's Darker Side, Joseph Yokelson
Mark Twain's Roughing It: A Humorist's Darker Side, Joseph Yokelson
Bridgewater Review
Roughing It was based rather roughly on a period of Twain’s life that began in 1861, when Twain went west with his brother Orion. Orion had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada territory with the help of friend who had a friend in Lincoln’s new cabinet. Twain had just faded quietly out of the Confederate army after suffering from boils and a sprained ankle and never firing a shot. For a while out west, Twain prospected for silver around Virginia City; then for about two years he was a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1864 he drifted …