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Life on the Mississippi
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Life on the Mississippi (1883) (edit title/settings)

by Mark Twain (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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  • “"The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I could have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it"”
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  • And does n’t he sometimes wonder whether he has gained most or lost most by learning his trade?
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  • “J. M. White” went from New Orleans to Cairo in three days, six hours, and forty-four minutes. In 1853
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  • ventured to deal in that feeble phrase “I think,” instead of the vigorous one “I know!”
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  • Marquette and their five subordinates reached the junction of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi.
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  • boy,—an acre or so of white, sweet-smelling boards in each raft, a crew of two dozen men or more, three or four wigwams scattered about the raft’s vast level space for storm-quarters,—and I remember the rude ways and the tremendous talk of their big crews, the ex-keelboatmen and their admiringly patterning successors; for we used to swim out a quarter or
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The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

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1. The River and Its History
2. The River and Its Explorers
3. Frescoes From the Past
4. The Boys' Ambition
5. I Want to be a Cub Pilot
6. A Cub Pilot's Experience
7. A Daring Deed
8. Perplexing Lessons
9. Continued Perplexities
10. Completing My Education
11. The River Rises
12. Sounding
13. A Pilot's Needs
14. Rank and Dignity of Piloting
15. The Pilots' Monopoly
16. Racing Days
17. Cut Offs and Stephen
18. I Take a Few Extra Lessons
19. Brown and I Exchange Compliments
20. A Catastrophe
21. A Section in My Biography
22. I Return to My Muttons
23 Traveling Incognito
24. My Incognito is Exploded
25. From Cairo to Hickman
26. Under Fire
27. Some Imported Articles
28. Uncle Mumford Unloads
30. Sketches by the Way
31. A Thumb Print and What Came of It
32. The Disposal of a Bonanza
33. Refreshments and Ethics
34. Tough Yarns
35. Vicksburg During the Trouble
36. The Professor's Yarn
37. The End of the 'Gold Dust'
38. The House Beautiful
39. Manufactures and Miscreants
40. Castles and Cultures
41. The Metropolis of the South
42. Hygiene and Sentiment
43. The Art of Inhumation
44. City Sights
45. Southern Sports
46. Enchantments and Enchanters
47. Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable
48. Sugar and Postage
49. Episodes in Pilot Life
50. The 'Original Jacobs'
51. Reminiscences
52. A Burning Brand
53. My Boyhood's Home
54. Past and Present
55. A Vendetta and Other Things
56. A Question of Law
57. An Archangel
58. On the Upper River
59. Legends and Scenery
60. Speculations and Conclusions

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This book is in Readers Digest Press. (edition-based publisher list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Mark Twain (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Edward Wagenknecht (Introduction)
  2. Thomas Hart (Illustrator)
  3. Willis Wager (Editor)
  4. Bill McKibben (Introduction)
  5. E. H. Garrett (Illustrator)
  6. Walter Stewart (Illustrator)
  7. James Cox (Introduction)
  8. John Willoughby (Introduction)
  9. Don Pulver (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: James R. Osgood & Co.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1883
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 624

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