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Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain · 1883 · 452 pages

American AuthorsFictionHistorical FictionJuvenile literatureRiver boatsDescription and travel

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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.

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