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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.
The Metropolis of the South THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he …
Hygiene and Sentiment THEY bury their dead in vaults, above the ground. These vaults have a resemblance to houses—sometimes to temples; are built of marble, generally; are architecturally gracefu…
The Art of Inhumation ABOUT the same time, I encountered a man in the street, whom I had not seen for six or seven years; and something like this talk followed. I said— 'But you used to look …
City Sights THE old French part of New Orleans—anciently the Spanish part—bears no resemblance to the American end of the city: the American end which lies beyond the intervening brick business-cen…
Southern Sports IN the North one hears the war mentioned, in social conversation, once a month; sometimes as often as once a week; but as a distinct subject for talk, it has long ago been relieved …
Enchantments and Enchanters THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample—the Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus t…
Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable MR. JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ('Uncle Remus') was to arrive from Atlanta at seven o'clock Sunday morning; so we got up and received him. We were able to detect h…
Sugar and Postage ONE day, on the street, I encountered the man whom, of all men, I most wished to see—Horace Bixby; formerly pilot under me—or rather, over me—now captain of the great steamer …
Episodes in Pilot Life IN the course of the tug-boat gossip, it came out that out of every five of my former friends who had quitted the river, four had chosen farming as an occupation. Of course t…
The 'Original Jacobs' WE had some talk about Captain Isaiah Sellers, now many years dead. He was a fine man, a high-minded man, and greatly respected both ashore and on the river. He was …
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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