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Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

About 740 pages (221,860 words) in 14 products

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Project Gutenberg eBook
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Life on the Mississippi eBook
128,908 words, approx. 430 pages
The complete online text of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain.


Biography

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Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
18401 words, approx. 61.3 pages
An author and platform entertainer who became tremendously popular in his own day, Samuel Clemens participated in the major literary movements of the century and knew virtually every one of his distinguished contemporaries. Biographers have emphasized th...
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Biography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
17980 words, approx. 59.9 pages
Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had known by the Mississippi River in those halcyon years be...
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Biography of Mark Twain
12083 words, approx. 40.3 pages
In the early spring of 1835 John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was another in a long series of migrations which the family...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Life on the Mississippi Information
588 words, approx. 2 pages
<i>Life on the Mississippi</i> is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. It...


News and Journals
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Investor's Business Daily
Clemens Made A Name For Himself: Mark Twain
8/9/2007: 928 words, approx. 3 pages
Samuel Langhorne Clemens wanted readers to get a hearty dose of reality from his work.So he did what all good writers do -- write what you know. Clemens, who achieved worldwide fame using the pen name Mark Twain, based virtually all his writings on personal...


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 85%
Analysis of an Excerpt from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"
446 words, approx. 2 pages
Essay analyzes "Two Views of the River," an excerpt from Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi."
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Essay Grade: 96%
Steamboats of the Mississippi
441 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay analyzes the elements of literature in an excerpt of Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi" and how they are used to convey the theme of the passage.


Life on the Mississippi Study Pack

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10 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
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2 Student Essays
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Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

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