Life on the Mississippi

Name: Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Memoir and historical narrative of steamboating life on the Mississippi River

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Mark Twain

American humorist and journalist whose travel books Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, and The Innocents Abroad are classics of American nonfiction. His late essays, especially 'The War Prayer' and 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness,' are scathing anti-imperialist satires. He invented a distinctly American journalistic voice.

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