Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain - Books - Perfection Learning - 9781531190095 - March 3, 2009
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Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi

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At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and variable atmosphere for the young Samuel Clemens to absorb. Clemens became a riverboat pilot and even chose his pen name--Mark Twain--from a term boatmen would call out signifying water depth at two fathoms, meaning safe clearance for travel. It was from this background that Life on the Mississippi emerged. It is an epochal record of America's growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer.

With an Introduction by Justin Kaplan
and an Afterword by John Seelye

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 3, 2009
ISBN13 9781531190095
Publishers Perfection Learning
Pages 373
Dimensions 109 × 170 × 36 mm   ·   249 g
Language English  

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