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Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDover Publications, Incorporated
ISBN-100486414264
ISBN-139780486414263
eBay Product ID (ePID)1725979
Product Key Features
Book TitleLife on the Mississippi
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicForm / Anecdotes & Quotations, Personal Memoirs, Literary, American / General, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor
AuthorMark Twain
Book SeriesDover Thrift Editions: Biography/Autobiography Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight7.7 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-060166
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromSixth Grade
Dewey Decimal917.7 [817.44]
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisLively recollections of Twain's salad days as a novice steamboat pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Engrossing and entertaining anecdotes by a peerless storyteller., He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this classic of American literature, Twain offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the tutelage of the most celebrated pilot on the Mississippi, young Twain acquires the skills to navigate a constantly changing riverscape, avoiding potential collisions with other boats and traversing winding channels in the dead of night. The vivid and ever-engaging narrative encompasses tales of riverside town feuds, the professional vicissitudes of a riverboat gambler, dramatic accounts of life in Vicksburg as the city lay under siege during the Civil War, and many other scenes from a now-vanished way of life. These antebellum visions take on a bittersweet cast with the author's postwar return to the region, when railroad competition has largely doomed the commercial steamboat and the old ways of life are passing into history. A testimonial to Twain's repute as the most popular humorist of his day, these reminiscences crackle with comic anecdotes and energetic witticisms. Engrossing and entertaining, this volume will captivate devotees of Twain, steamboat buffs, lovers of Americana, and students of American literature., The popular 19th-century humorist offers lively recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice steamboat pilot on one of the world's greatest rivers to views from the passenger deck in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Engrossing and entertaining anecdotes by a peerless storyteller from a now-finished chapter of American history.
LC Classification NumberPS1314.A1 2000
