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Life on the Mississippi
- 452 pages · about 8 hours
- First published 1883
- 157 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
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.
Good for readers who want: a classic, history, a true life story, and a long read.
- Historical fiction
- Classics
- History
- Biography & autobiography
- Authors, biography
- Philosophical anthropology
- Mind and body
- Philosophy of mind
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