Life on the Mississippi (World's Classics) - Hardcover

Mark Twain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0192505890 ISBN 13: 9780192505897

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1962

Synopsis

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps America's favorite author. A quick-witted humorist who wrote travelogues, letters, speeches, and most famously the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), Twain was so successful that he became America's biggest celebrity by the end of the 19th century. Despite writing biting satires, he managed to befriend everyone from presidents to European royalty.   

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Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0192505890
• ISBN 13: 9780192505897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1