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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. It is at once an affectionate evocation

of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy

reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless

collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique

glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write.

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 also America’s

most profound chronicler of the human comedy.

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

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 steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood

dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's

return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New

Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats

passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat

construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and

records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad

architecture.

About the Author

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of the

most exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town of

Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and was

successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted

Confederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and reporter in the

western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide

knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local

customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.

With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of

Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier

humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame.

But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally,

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized

by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers

America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and

financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlook

not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his

fame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary

degrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation,

writing fables about "the damned human race."

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.4

The "Body of the Nation"

THE RIVER AND ITS HISTORY ...

THE RIVER AND ITS EXPLORERS

FRESCOES FROM THE PAST

THE BOY'S AMBITION

I WANT TO BE A CUB-PILOT

A CUB-PILOT'S EXPERIENCE

A DARING DEED

PERPLEXING LESSONS

CONTINUED PERPLEXITIES

COMPLETING MY EDUCATION ..

THE RIVER RISES

SOUNDING

A PILOT'S NEEDS

RANK AND DIGNITY OF PILOTING

THE PILOT'S MONOPOLY

RACING DAYS

CUT-OFFS AND STEPHEN

I TAKE A FEW EXTRA LESSONS

BROWN AND I EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS .

Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of

the most exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town of

Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and was

successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted

Confederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and reporter in the

western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide

knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local

customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.

With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of

Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier

humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame.

But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and

finally, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he

was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest

writers America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and

financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlook

not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his

fame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary

degrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation,

writing fables about "the damned human race."

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书籍介绍

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. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write.

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 also America’s most profound chronicler of the human comedy.