by Mark Twain · Konemann UK Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783829050371
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«Life on the Mississippi» is Mark Twain's autobiographical account, published by Konemann UK Ltd in paperback (458 pages, in English).
In this work, Mark Twain recalls his years as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River and portrays life and landscape in nineteenth-century America. The book combines autobiography with the river's history, genre scenes and numerous anecdotes, and anticipates the world of Mark Twain's later fiction.
The edition was published in 2000 within Könemann's Travel Classics collection.
Suitable for readers of American classics and nineteenth-century travel literature.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
