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100 1 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910.
245 10 $aLife on the Mississippi /$cMark Twain ; introduction by Eric Carl Link.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBarnes & Noble,$c2010.
300 $axiv, 338 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aBarnes & Noble library of essential reading
500 $aOriginally published 1883.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 338).
520 $aLife on the Mississippi was, in some ways, the book Mark Twain always wanted to write. It was the travel narrative most closely connected with his youth, with his sense of self, with his life. Twain viewed the Mississippi River as a defining feature of his life, his culture, and his country. It is in this book that we learn how Samuel Clemens took on the pen name Mark Twain. This is a work not about the Mississippi, but about life on the Mississippi. It is a text that lays before the reader not only the life of America's greatest river, but the life of one of her greatest artists. Yet, in doing these two things, it does more, for, when all is said and done, Life on the Mississippi lays before the reader the life of the nation itself, a portrait of nineteenth-century American life and culture as only Mark Twain can paint it.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xHomes and haunts$zMississippi River Valley.
600 10 $aTwain, Mark,$d1835-1910$xTravel$zMississippi River Valley.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$vBiography.
651 0 $aMississippi River Valley$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
651 0 $aMississippi River Valley$xSocial life and customs.
651 0 $aMississippi River$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aPilots and pilotage$zMississippi River.