Life on the Mississippi

By Mark Twain

Subjects: Boys, Homes and haunts, Bible, Balloon ascensions, Historical Fiction, Juvenile literature, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Heaven, Steamboats, Intellectual life, Christian Science, American Authors, Walking, Philosophical anthropology, Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, Imaginary conversations, Open Library Staff Picks, Mississippi river, description and travel, Authors, american, Mississippi River -- Description and travel., Runaway children, Authors, biography, Conjoined twins, Nonfiction, Poor children, Kings and rulers, Philosophy of mind, Journeys, Human beings, River life, Princes, Baconian theory, Twain, mark, 1835-1910, Large type books, Male friendship, Political fiction, Ship captains, American War stories, Manners and customs, Time travel, Sketches, Britons, Mistaken identity, Childhood and youth, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Legislators, Storytelling, Comedy sketches, Businessmen, American Humorous stories, River boats, Fugitive slaves, Passing (Identity), Trials (Murder), Voyages around the world, Imperialism, Autorschaft, City life, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), Authorship, Social life and customs, Speeches, addresses, etc., American, Pilots and pilotage, Description and travel, Belletristische Darstellung, Impostors and imposture, Americans, Speculation, Mississippi river valley, description and travel, Christian women saints, Controversial literature, History, Mississippi river valley, social life and customs, Classic Literature, Imaginary Voyages, American Humorists, Huckleberry Finn (Fictitious character), Political corruption, History of Biblical events, Travel, Mind and body, Race relations, Infants switched at birth, Récits humoristiques américains, Satire, Knights and knighthood

Description: At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.