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Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War published in 1883. It is also a travel book , recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul , many years after the war.
- Mark Twain
- 1883
24 de fev. de 2018 · The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life On The Mississippi, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
21 de abr. de 2011 · Life on the Mississippi, memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4–22 describe Twain’s career as a Mississippi.
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Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s memoir of his early life learning to be a pilot on a Mississippi River Boat during the glory days of those crafts. It’s also a travel book, recording his trip on the river over twenty years after he had left it.
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10 de jul. de 2004 · Life on the Mississippi Credits: Produced by David Widger. Earliest PG text edition produced by Graham Allan Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Mississippi River -- Description and travel Subject: Mississippi River Valley -- Social life and customs -- 19th century Subject
- Mark Twain
- 1883
Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but...
Life on the Mississippi, in its composition and substance, is intricately related to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his introduction, James M. Cox suggests that in writing this...
