Old Times on the Mississippi (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Mark Twain

Overview

 In this 1871 memoir— drawing from the life experiences that also produced Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn—Twain tells how he achieved his boyhood dream of navigating a steamboat along the treacherous, ever-changing banks of the great river. Written for William Dean Howells’s Atlantic magazine, this is the original, shorter version of Life on the Mississippi. This edition also contains the story "A Literary Nightmare."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411459809
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	07/26/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	168
File size:	213 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Mark Twain (1835–1910), born Samuel Clemens, is said to be America’s greatest humorist. William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. Ernest Hemmingway added, “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain.” He was referring to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut