Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

Overview

Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain was published in 1883 and is a memoir of Mark Twain's days as a steamboat boat on Mississippi. The book also tells of his trip down the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after his days as a steamboat pilot.

Mark Twain was one of the great adventurers and writers of the 1800s. Now you can enjoy his classic memoir Life on the Mississippi.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149010691
Publisher:	Balster Publishing
Publication date:	11/07/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	498 KB

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