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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 1883 · Travel, Biography & Memoir
Before he was Mark Twain, he was a boy on the levee waiting for the cry that turned a dead morning glorious: steamboat a-comin'. The true story of how he talked a master pilot into teaching him, and learned to carry twelve hundred miles of treacherous water in his head.
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This edition
- Title
- Life on the Mississippi
- Author
- Mark Twain (1835–1910)
- First published
- 1883
- Illustrated plates
- 80 original artworks · 11 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 63 · about 143,050 words
- Reading time
- 9 h 32 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- July 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #245
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