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Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi A brilliant amalgam of remembrance and reportage, by turns satiric, celebratory, nostalgic, and melancholy, Life in the Mississippi (1883) evokes the great river that Mark Twain knew as a boy and young man and the one he revisited as a mature and successful author. Written between the publication of his two greatest novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s rich portrait of the Mississippi marks a distinctive transition in the life of the river and the nation, from the boom years preceding the Civil War to the sober times that followed it. “Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us are his heirs.”—William Faulkner Jonathan Raban is a British travel writer and novelist. He is the author of Passage to Juneau, Bad Land: An American Romance (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award), Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi, and Surveillance. He currently lives in Seattle. |
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