false 2296717 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 99152 82 2549350 1883 Life on the Mississippi total:1386|5:343|4:536|3:418|2:72|1:17| 1386 5274 1938 109 1655 3.79 243655 6726 10742444 363825 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.80 1258 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 2 1 false Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 20 06:35:57 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 31 07:20:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 61052910 2451100 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 3 0 false Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Jun 25 07:46:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 08:14:25 -0700 2009 I love Mark Twain. I wish I could memorize quotes, because I would love to have a slew of his at my beck and call to d...more...]]> 58436009 1849339 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 5 0 false Thu Jun 04 12:14:20 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 12:22:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1880854 127556 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 4 1 false Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Tue Jun 12 08:44:53 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 21:19:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 65848453 1434656 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 2 0 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 04:39:35 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 03:10:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 81489964 2424593 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 4 0 false Fri Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 11:25:22 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 19 11:31:41 -0800 2009
The first part involves his stories from days working on steamboats as a young man. It involves some interesting tales of captains and pilots and the...more...]]> 58795992 1832213 2521156 5552547853 9785552547852 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2521156.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.75 4 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 5 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Jun 07 18:34:50 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 18:43:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 67909704 2105842 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 4 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 11:57:21 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 12:09:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 70785449 2360412 6378196 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6378196-life-on-the-mississippi 4.33 3 The Atlantic Monthly in 1875 into the definitive travelogue on the great Mississippi. Although Life on the Mississippi was not commercially successful when first published in May 1883, it is the work that Twain later claimed was the favorite among his books. Twain's rich portrait of the Mississippi also marks a distinctive transition in the life of the nation, from the boom years preceding the Civil War to the sober times that followed. Yet it is infused with the irreverent humor that was his trademark. 'Mark Twain was the first writer who ever used the American vernacular at the level of art,' said Bernard de Voto. 'He had a greater effect than any other writer on the evolution of American prose.']]> 1883 4 0 false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 18:51:09 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 18:14:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65259535 320190 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 5 0 false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 08:15:17 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 21:09:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 36416336 1663390 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 5 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 28 14:45:01 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 14:45:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 34825222 1603118 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 2 1 false Wed Oct 08 11:51:30 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 11:52:00 -0700 2008 more...]]> 32897347 740619 398196 0375759379 9780375759376 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174427173m/398196.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174427173s/398196.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/398196.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.88 33 Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain’s most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain’s life before he began to write.

Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America’s most profound chronicler of the human comedy.]]> 1883 4 0 false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 21:32:20 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 16:56:52 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 32793838 384892 2505985 0553211420 9780553211429 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222701788m/2505985.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1222701788s/2505985.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2505985.Life_on_the_Mississippi 4.00 3 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 3 0 false Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Sep 13 15:12:39 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 22:13:18 -0800 2008
One great part was Twain recounting the tail of an acquainta...more...]]> 29642975 1407248 3032425 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231666086m/3032425.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1231666086s/3032425.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3032425.Life_on_the_Mississippi 4.00 4 The 2nd half of the book describes Twain's return, many years later, to travel on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, the new, large cities & his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy & bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are likely tall tales.
Simultaneously published in 1883 in the USA & in England, it is said to be the 1st book composed on a typewriter.
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note: skip the 1st 3 chapters...more...]]> 43917991 1937951 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 4 0 false Thu Jan 29 06:28:48 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 07:38:43 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 06:28:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 59582271 1528915 99152 0451528174 9780451528179 87 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177m/99152.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171433177s/99152.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99152.Life_on_the_Mississippi 3.81 1386 "The Lincoln of our literature."--Wm Dean Howells]]> 1883 3 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sat Jun 13 21:28:21 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 21:35:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2296717