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Fashioned from the same

experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn,

Life on the Mississippi 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.

Written in a prose style 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.

The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the

American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book

begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by

Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Twain's career as

a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood

dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's

return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New

Orleans. By then the competition from railroads had made steamboats

passe, in spite of improvements in navigation and boat

construction. Twain sees new, large cities on the river, and

records his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad

architecture.

About the Author

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 reporter in the

western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide

knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local

customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.

With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of

Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier

humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame.

But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and finally,

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized

by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers

America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and

financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlook

not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his

fame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary

degrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation,

writing fables about "the damned human race."

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.1 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.4

The "Body of the Nation"

THE RIVER AND ITS HISTORY ...

THE RIVER AND ITS EXPLORERS

FRESCOES FROM THE PAST

THE BOY'S AMBITION

I WANT TO BE A CUB-PILOT

A CUB-PILOT'S EXPERIENCE

A DARING DEED

PERPLEXING LESSONS

CONTINUED PERPLEXITIES

COMPLETING MY EDUCATION ..

THE RIVER RISES

SOUNDING

A PILOT'S NEEDS

RANK AND DIGNITY OF PILOTING

THE PILOT'S MONOPOLY

RACING DAYS

CUT-OFFS AND STEPHEN

I TAKE A FEW EXTRA LESSONS

BROWN AND I EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS .

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 reporter in the

western territories. His experiences furnished him with a wide

knowledge of humanity, as well as with the perfect grasp of local

customs and speech which manifests itself in his writing.

With the publication in 1865 of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of

Calaveras County, Twain gained national attention as a frontier

humorist, and the bestselling Innocents Abroad solidified his fame.

But it wasn't until Life on the Mississippi (1883), and

finally, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he

was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest

writers America would ever produce.

Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and

financial failure, Twain grew more and more pessimistic—an outlook

not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm. Though his

fame continued to widen—Yale & Oxford awarded him honorary

degrees—Twain spent his last years in gloom and exasperation,

writing fables about "the damned human race."

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书籍介绍

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi 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.

Written in a prose style 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.

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• 作者：风转竹门 发布时间：2022-04-04 17:59:51

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  一半是当年当引水员的回忆，一半是多年后循河而行的游记。

• 不时出现一些经典段落

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  不得不承认前半部分描写Mark水手生活的篇章充满了作者对朝气蓬勃的往日生活的留恋，这种情绪延续到了中后段的沿河而下的景物志。单调的密西西比河流在作者眼里折射了几乎整个south的人文和历史，有时他和当地人一起聊天追忆往昔，有时他站在船沿俯视一整个小镇，不断变换的视角呈现一个立体的Mississippi。后半段游记没有太认真读，大概是视觉的呈现对我来说有点困难吧。

• 一点感想~

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  买这本书的契机其实是在做练习材料的时候，一个讲者提到了书里面的一段话，觉得非常有意思, "The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book-a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice..."，实际上讲得就是不同经历的人，看同一件事情，看到的东西是不一样的，像密西西比河上的pilot，靠得就是"阅读"水面的本事，当水面上泛起微微的涟漪(faint dimples)时，游客大觉赏心阅目，而对pilot来说这意味着河底下可能有残骸或石头，可能直接摧毁整个船只；但事物都有两面性，一个正儿八经的pilot却再也不能享受大河给他们带来的浪漫和美丽了，水面所有的姿态在他们眼里都是拿来分析的实用性信息，“Since those days, I have pited doctors from my heart. What does the lovely flush in a beauty's cheek mean to a doctor but a 'break' that ripples above some deadly disease?"-美人脸上泛起的红晕，对于医生来说，会不会仅是致命疾病的征兆？