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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.403
Fabric Type: 9780486414263
Legal Disclaimer: 0486414264
Maximum Color Depth: Dover Publications
Metal Type: Dover Publications
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 304
Total External Bays Free: December 21, 2000
Total Firewire Ports: Dover Publications
Dover Publications
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Product Description:
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.
Average Rating: 
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To me, this book seemed like several rather disjointed chunks of writing about Twain's Mississippi experience. I don't know what happened. Maybe he compiled all his scraps of material about this period and threw them together, not bothering with transitions or filling in gaps, or smoothing out the narrative flow.
In any case, I found the writing delightful and in places laugh-aloud funny. I even typed out several large passages in a letter I was writing to my brother. The letter must have ... Read More
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Mark Twain, like Will Rogers is an American icon. As a general rule, anything either one ever did is worthy of consideration. 'Life on the Mississippi' is Twain (Samuel Clemons) at his witty best. There are some tall tales, and some poignant memories of a great time in America's development.
However, all that being said, the book I received could have been in better condition.
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My first copy of this absorbing work was a small, compact edition published by the Oxford University Press. I read it by candle-light and found myself borne into another world, transported. In the early chapters, Twain focuses on his introduction to steamboating - he wears his YOUTH on his sleeve, recounting his cub-piloting experiences with the delight of a child. In the latter chapters, set in the post Civil-War era, Twain focuses on his returning impressions - he wears his HEART on his sleeve, ... Read More
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Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, originally published in 1883, is part memoir, part paean to the Mississippi River and its culture, and part compilation of whatever miscellaneous anecdotes Twain thought were worth relating.
Twain begins with a history of the Mississippi since it was discovered by de Soto in 1541. He then discusses in great detail his training and early career as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War, and the accompanying science of navigating the river. Mastering ... Read More
Rating: -
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi, originally published in 1883, is part memoir, part paean to the Mississippi River and its culture, and part compilation of whatever miscellaneous anecdotes Twain thought were worth relating.
Twain begins with a history of the Mississippi since it was discovered by de Soto in 1541. He then discusses in great detail his training and early career as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War, and the accompanying science of navigating the river. Mastering ... Read More
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