Life on the Mississippi (Bantam Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553213490 ISBN 13: 9780553213492

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1983

Synopsis

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.

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8 1.5-hour cassettes

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0553213490
• ISBN 13: 9780553213492
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416