Life On The Mississippi
by Mark Twain
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This edition of Life On The Mississippi from Chewana Books offers the reader a distinct perspective on the Mark Twain classic with a detailed biography of the author, including:
Mark Twain before becoming a writer
How Mark Twain got his name
How the best-selling author wound up broke
Tragedies and the depression of the author
What inspired many of his books
A look at the author's family
And more...
Life On The Mississippi is a semi-autobiographical book by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) The book is part history and part travel writing, while blending in memoirs that detail Twain's experiences as a steamboat pilot before the Civil War and a later journey down the river after the war. The beginning of the book focuses on training and life as a pilot; filled with vivid memories of the river and its colorful characters. The second part is presented as a travelogue reflecting on the changes brought by the railroads and industrialization. On display throughout the book are Twain's signature wit, humor, and keen observations of a bygone era of American life.
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"When I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. That was, to be a steamboatman. We had transient ambitions of other sorts, but they were only transient. When a circus came and went, it left us all burning to become clowns; the first negro minstrel show that came to our section left us all suffering to try that kind of life; now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. These ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained."
- Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
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