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In this novel, Mark Twain uses his own experiences of a stagecoach journey across the American West to comment on the the local characters and satirize life on the frontier.

Keywords: travel novel, semi-autobiographical, satire, criticism, commentary

Critical sites about Roughing It

"Roughing It"
http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/mmt/mmt_roughingit.html: "The grotesque exaggeration and broad irony with which the life is described are conjecturably the truest colors that could have been used, for all existence there must have looked like an extravagant joke, the humor of which was only deepened by its nether-side of tragedy. The plan of the book is very simple indeed, for it is merely the personal history of Mr. Clemens during a certain number of years. . . "; Contains: Review; Author: Howells, William Dean; From: Atlantic Monthly June 1872; Keywords: Mark Twain, contemporary criticism

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