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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 River Rises
Sounding
A Pilot's Needs
Rank and Dignity of Piloting
The Pilots' Monopoly
Racing Days
Cut-offs and Stephen
I Take a Few Extra Lessons
Brown and I Exchange Compliments
A Catastrophe
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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