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27 de abr. de 2024 · Life on the Mississippi" is a memoir by Mark Twain about his experiences as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It also serves as a travel book detailing his journey along the river.
Hace 3 días · Near the completion of Huckleberry Finn, Twain wrote Life on the Mississippi, which is said to have heavily influenced the novel. The travel work recounts Twain's memories and new experiences after a 22-year absence from the Mississippi River.
- Modern
- American Realism
- from 1863
24 de abr. de 2024 · The excerpt from his latest book (out March 16) below explores why Mississippi’s landscape inspires and perplexes so many writers and the stories they tell. As Faulkner is said to have observed, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
24 de abr. de 2024 · The Unreliable Memoirs of a Mississippi Gambler. Considering the sheer number of paddle steamer casinos that plied their trade up and down the Mississippi in the 19th century—to the delight of gamblers—it’s surprising there have not been more books devoted to the subject.
15 de abr. de 2024 · Eudora Welty (born April 13, 1909, Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 23, 2001, Jackson) was an American short-story writer and novelist whose work is mainly focused with great precision on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her own birthplace and the Delta country.
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Hace 2 días · Mark Twain's book, Life on the Mississippi, covered the steamboat commerce, which took place from 1830 to 1870, before more modern ships replaced the steamer. Harper's Weekly first published the book as a seven-part serial in 1875.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Life on the Mississippi is a hardcover book written by Mark Twain and published by Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, T.H.E. in 1987. The book is a biography and autobiography, travel, literary criticism, and social science genre.
