num_pages: 384
description: A stirring account of America's vanished past... The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer...  Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.  At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: 
  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
.  "The Lincoln of our literature." (William Dean Howells)
language: English
title: Life on the Mississippi
titlecomplete: Life on the Mississippi
characters: Samuel Clemens, Mark Twain
genres: American, Biography, Travel, Literature, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Humor
ratings_count: 14568
places: The United States of America, Mississippi River
publisher: Signet Classics