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Life on the Mississippi

Author
Mark Twain
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
13 hours 29 minutes
ISBN
9781802561227
Published
19 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Mississippi
  • Mark Twain
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • Huck
  • Tom Sawyer
  • adventures
  • American novel
  • boy's own
  • humour
  • satire

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Description

Twain as a steamboat cub, then the river again as a famous man. Hear Life on the Mississippi unabridged in English: shoals, leads, pilots’ lore, a highway already being outrun by the railway. American comedy with a sounding-pole. When he returns, the river has begun to be a souvenir. Jokes, jargon, the knowledge that a trade can die while you are still proud of it. Memoir and tall tale on the same water. The Mississippi as school, then as a vanishing world you can still hear.

Author

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), river pilot, Nevada journalist, and the writer who turned American talk into literature. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gave boyhood its permanent stage; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn put a runaway child and a fugitive slave on the Mississippi and asked what conscience sounds like when the law is wrong. He lectured across America and Europe, lost fortunes, and kept writing.

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