Life on the Mississippi - Paperback
by Mark Twain
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mark Twain, Bill McKibben (Introduction by), James Danly (Notes by)Series:Modern Library ClassicsPublish date:5/29/2007Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375759376ISBN-10:375759379UPC:9780375759376Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCWW59AF4B
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern LibraryISBN-13:9780375759376ISBN-10:375759379UPC:9780375759376Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, United StatesBook Topic:19th Century, State & LocalSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCWW59AF4B
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...
Publisher: Modern Library
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Mark Twain, Bill McKibben (Introduction by), James Danly (Notes by)
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