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Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark TWAIN (1835 - 1910)

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)


01- The River and its History

02-The River and Its Explorers

03-Frescoes From the Past

04-The Boys' Ambition

05-I Want to be a Cub-pilot

06-A Cub-pilot's Experience

07-A Daring Deed

08-Perplexing Lessons

09-Continued Perplexities

10-Completing My Education

11-The River Rises

12-Sounding

13-A Pilot's Needs

14-Rank and Dignity of Piloting

15-The Pilots' Monopoly

16-Racing Days

17-Cut-offs and Stephen

18-I Take a Few Extra Lessons

19-Brown and I Exchange Compliments

20-A Catastophe

21-A Section in My Biography

22-I Return to My Muttons

23-Traveling Incognito

24-My Incognito is Exploded

25-From Cairo to Hickman

26-Under Fire

27-Some Imported Articles

28-Uncle Mumford Unloads

29-A Few Specimen Bricks

30-Sketches by the Way

31-A Thumb-print and What Came of It

32-The Disposal of a Bonanza

33-Refreshments and Ethics

34-Tough Yarns

35-Vicksburg During the Trouble

36-The Professor's Yarn

37-The End of the 'Gold Dust'

38-The House Beautiful

39-Manufactures and Miscreants

40-Castles and Culture

41-The Metropolis of the South

42-Hygiene and Sentiment

43-The Art of Inhumation

44-City Sights

45-Southern Sports

46-Enchantments and Enchanters

47-Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable

48-Sugar and Postage

49-Episodes in Pilot Life

50-The 'Original Jacobs'

51-Reminiscences

52-A Burning Brand

53-My Boyhood's Home

54-Past and Present

55-A Vendetta and Other Things

56-A Question of Law

57-An Archangel

58-On the Upper River

59-Legends and Scenery

60-Speculations and Conclusions

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D