{"product_id":"life-on-the-mississippi-paperback-2","title":"Life on the Mississippi - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJustin Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eJohn Seelye\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, was host to riverboat travelers from around the world, providing a vigorous and variable atmosphere for the young Samuel Clemens to absorb. Clemens became a riverboat pilot and even chose his pen name--Mark Twain--from a term boatmen would call out signifying water depth at two fathoms, meaning safe clearance for travel. It was from this background that \u003ci\u003eLife on the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e emerged. It is an epochal record of America's growth, a stirring remembrance of her vanished past. And it earned for its author his first recognition as a serious writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Justin Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand an Afterword by John Seelye\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his person and in his pursuits, \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e (1835-1910) was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve, when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental--and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\"\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJustin Kaplan is the author of numerous books including \u003ci\u003eMr. Clemens and Mark Twain\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eMark Twain and His World\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWalt Whitman: A Life; \u003c\/i\u003eand with his wife, Anne Bernays, \u003ci\u003eBack Then: Two Lives in 1950s New York. \u003c\/i\u003e In 1985, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Seelye\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading American Studies scholar and Graduate Research Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of Florida. 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