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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker ...
Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War.
LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER I. THE RIVER AND ITS HISTORY. THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world--four thousand three hundred VIEW ON THE RIVER.
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The memoir is set in the antebellum era, primarily in the 1850s, along the Mississippi River. Twain describes his formative years as a young boy growing up in the riverside town of Hannibal, Missouri. He then takes readers on a journey as he fulfills his childhood dream of becoming a steamboat pilot. The narrative spans from his apprenticeship ...
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work.
Mark Twain. Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi is a classic work of American literature that explores the author’s experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. However, there is much more to this book than meets the eye. Through a literary analysis of Twain’s writing, we can uncover the deeper themes and meanings behind ...
