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Life on the Mississippiis an autobiographical work ofMark Twain, remembering his days as a steamboat pilot in the river of Mississippi during 1880s. Not only this book has made Mark Twain as a serious writer, but also inspired him to write one of his most popular novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
This book is spanned around Mark Twain’s boyhood life and also the development took place in around the cities of Mississippi river during the period when steam boats were introduces. However this book lacks a bit of entertainment and casual reader may not be interested to read it completely. This book is having lot of sketches portrayed by the author himself, and it was submitted for publication in a typewritten manuscript.
A Thumb-print and What Came of It WE were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This was bad—not best, anyway; for mine was…
The Disposal of a Bonanza 'SUCH was Ritter's narrative,' said I to my two friends. There was a profound and impressive silence, which lasted a considerable time; then both men broke …
Refreshments and Ethics IN regard to Island 74, which is situated not far from the former Napoleon, a freak of the river here has sorely perplexed the laws of men and made them a vanity and a jest.…
Tough Yarns STACK island. I remembered Stack Island; also Lake Providence, Louisiana—which is the first distinctly Southern-looking town you come to, downward-bound; lies level and low, shade-trees…
Vicksburg During the Trouble WE used to plow past the lofty hill-city, Vicksburg, down-stream; but we cannot do that now. A cut-off has made a country town of it, like Osceola, St. Genevieve, and…
The Professor's Yarn IT was in the early days. I was not a college professor then. I was a humble-minded young land-surveyor, with the world before me—to survey, in case anybody wanted it done…
The End of the 'Gold Dust' FOR, three months later, August 8, while I was writing one of these foregoing chapters, the New York papers brought this telegram— A TERRIBLE DISASTER. SEVENT…
The House Beautiful WE took passage in a Cincinnati boat for New Orleans; or on a Cincinnati boat—either is correct; the former is the eastern form of putting it, the latter the western. Mr. Dicke…
Manufactures and Miscreants WHERE the river, in the Vicksburg region, used to be corkscrewed, it is now comparatively straight—made so by cut-off; a former distance of seventy miles is reduced to t…
Castles and Culture BATON ROUGE was clothed in flowers, like a bride—no, much more so; like a greenhouse. For we were in the absolute South now—no modifications, no compromises, no half-way measure…
Speculations and Conclusions WE reached St. Paul, at the head of navigation of the Mississippi, and there our voya…
Legends and Scenery WE added several passengers to our list, at La Crosse; among others an old gentleman who had com…
On the Upper River THE big towns drop in, thick and fast, now: and between stretch processions of thrifty farms, n…
An Archangel FROM St. Louis northward there are all the enlivening signs of the presence of active, energetic, intel…
A Question of Law THE slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calabo…
A Vendetta and Other Things DURING my three days' stay in the town, I woke up every morning with the impression…
Past and Present Being left to myself, up there, I went on picking out old houses in the distant town, and calling b…
My Boyhood's Home WE took passage in one of the fast boats of the St. Louis and St. Paul Packet Company, and st…
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