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 |
Item number | TWA/L |
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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Koha item type | BK |
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Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 23/05/2014 | 250.00 | 818.403 TWA/L | 22318 | BK |