Life on the Mississippi -- Mark Twain

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece <b>Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi</b> 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. <p/>Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, <b>Life on the Mississippi</b> established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Mark Twain<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 05/29/2007<br><b>Pages:</b> 416<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.85lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375759376<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.1<br><b>Point Value:</b> 24<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>10039 / Life on the Mississippi<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of the most exciting of literary lives. Raised in the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at age 12 and was successively a journeyman printer, a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted Confederate soldier, and a prospector, miner, and