Life on the Mississippi
Author | Mark Twain |
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Country | United States and England |
Language | English |
Genre | Biography |
Publisher | James R. Osgood & Co., Boston (U.S. edition) Chatto & Windus, London (English edition) |
Publication date | 1883 |
Media type | |
Pages | 624 [1] |
Preceded by | The Prince and the Pauper |
Followed by | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Life on the Mississippi is a
Overview
The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by
In the second half, Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans, shortly followed by a steamboat journey from New Orleans to St Paul (with a stop at his boyhood home town of Hannibal, MO). He describes the competition from
Publication
Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain, the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript.[3] Twain did not, however, use the typewriter himself. His secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, typed from Twain's manuscript.[4]
Dramatic adaptations
In 1980, the book was adapted as a
In 2010, Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City, Missouri, and Door County, Wisconsin.
In 2013, Life on the Mississippi, a musical play by Philip Hall, was performed at the Workshop Theater Company in New York. It was directed by Susanna Frazer.
See also
- George Washington Cable
- Lagniappe
- Joseph Alexander Mabry, Jr.
- Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site
- Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum
- Mark Twain House
- Mud clerk
- Paddle steamer
- Pennsylvania steamboat
- Riverboat
- Steamboat
- Steamboats of the Mississippi
References
- ^ Facsimile of the original 1st edition.
- , page 26"[...] De Soto, the first white man who ever saw the Mississippi River, saw it in 1542 [...]"
- ^ "The First Typewriter". Rehr, Darryl. Archived from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ISBN 978-3-319-67321-9.
External links
- Life on the Mississippi at Project Gutenberg
- Life on the Mississippi at Faded Page (Canada)
- Life on the Mississippi from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Life on the Mississippi public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- IMDb entry for PBS movie