Life on the Mississippi - Twain, Mark; Clemens, Samuel
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This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain's time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on the Mississippi and his career as a riverboat pilot before the Civil War, which contains not only some of his very best writing, but remains our most vivid picture of this colorful era in American history. It might be fairly said that LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is to steamboat life what MOBY DICK is to whaling, only without need for a plot, at least not one invented by the author. This is a book taken from life, which transfers life onto the printed page as well as anything in American literature.…mehr

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This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain's time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on the Mississippi and his career as a riverboat pilot before the Civil War, which contains not only some of his very best writing, but remains our most vivid picture of this colorful era in American history. It might be fairly said that LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is to steamboat life what MOBY DICK is to whaling, only without need for a plot, at least not one invented by the author. This is a book taken from life, which transfers life onto the printed page as well as anything in American literature.
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Autorenporträt
Mark Twain (1835-1910), geboren als Samuel Langhorne Clemens, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Humorist und Dozent, der für seinen Witz und seine lebendige Darstellung des amerikanischen Lebens im 19. Er wird weithin als einer der größten amerikanischen Autoren angesehen. In seinen Werken setzt sich Twain häufig mit Themen wie Ethnie, Gesellschaft und Moral auseinander. Zu seinen bekanntesten Romanen gehören Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer und Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn, die als Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Literatur gelten.