Books : Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Oxford Mark Twain)

Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Oxford Mark Twain)

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780195101393
ISBN: 0195101391
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: December 05, 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA

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Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores. As Willie Morris notes in his introduction, it "is written with the flamboyance and affecting precision of a craftsman." Life on the Mississippi explores how a child learns to be an adult, and how an adult learns to understand what it was to be a child. It is a book about the South, about memory, about change, and, of course, about the Mississippi River and the world through which it snakes. "When the life of the river is rendered with Twain's brand of wry skepticism," writes Lawrence Howe in his afterword, "the Mississippi is, indeed, well worth reading about."

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