Life on the Mississippi (Record no. 21989)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0140390502
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 818.403
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Twain, Mark
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Life on the Mississippi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York
Name of publisher Penguin Books
Year of publication 1986
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 450p.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Penguin Classics
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. It is also a travel book, recounting his trip up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Saint Paul many years after the war.<br/><br/>A stirring account of America's vanished past...<br/>The book that earned Mark Twain his first recognition as a serious writer...<br/><br/>Discover the magic of life on the Mississippi.<br/><br/>At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Mark Twain's early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, Life on the Mississippi is the raw material from which Twain wrote his finest novel: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Mississippi river-Description and travel
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Topical Term American literature
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Cox, James M., ed.
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 23/05/2014 250.00 818.403 TWA/L 22318 BK

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