Life on the Mississippi (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Life on the Mississippi (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Life on the Mississippi (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

by Mark Twain

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Overview

Life on the Mississippi was, in some ways, the book Mark Twain always wanted to write. It was the travel narrative most closely connected with his youth, with his sense of self, with his life. Twain viewed the Mississippi River as a defining feature of his life, his culture, and his country. It is in this book that we learn how Samuel Clemens took on the pen name Mark Twain.

This is a work not about the Mississippi, but about life on the Mississippi. It is a text that lays before the reader not only the life of America’s greatest river, but the life of one of her greatest artists. Yet, in doing these two things, it does more, for, when all is said and done, Life on the Mississippi lays before the reader the life of the nation itself, a portrait of nineteenth-century American life and culture as only Mark Twain can paint it.

Born November 30, 1835, in the frontier town of Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens adopted the pen name Mark Twain. The name was a term that he often heard during his days as a Mississippi River pilot. A prolific author, Twain is best known for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781435120860
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication date: 08/13/2010
Series: Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading
Pages: 338
Sales rank: 679,375
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist noted for the novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (which has been called "The Great American Novel") and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, among many other books. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and he spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before finding fame as a writer.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut
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