LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleber
ry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most persona
l nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river li
fe in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the C
ivil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a uniq
ue glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write.

Written in a prose styl
e 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.