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 ."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: Classics, Autobiography, History, Travel, Humor, Biography, Literature, Memoir, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14567
places: Mississippi River, The United States of America
publisher: Adamant Media Corporation