Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平装] pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025

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Mark Twain（马克·吐温） 著

出版社： Random House

ISBN：9780553213492

商品编码：19017207

包装：平装

丛书名： Bantam Classics

出版时间：1998-10-05

页数：312

正文语种：英文

商品尺寸：11.43x2.29x18.29cm

内容简介

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.

作者简介

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, as he was better known was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. His father ran a dry goods and grocery store, practiced law and involved himself in local politics after the family's move to Hannibal, Missouri, when Sam was four years old.

Hannibal seems to have been a good place for a boy to grow up. Sam was entranced by the Mississippi River and enjoyed both the barges and the people who traveled on them. When Sam was just eleven his father died and Sam went to work for his brother at the Hannibal Journal first as a printer's apprentice and later a compositor. While still in his teens Sam went on the road as an itinerant printer. In 1857 he conceived a plan to seek his fortune in South America but on the way he met a steamboat captain, Horace Bixby who took him on as a cub riverboat pilot and taught him until he acquired his own license.

This enjoyable style of life, which Twain always spoke of later with special warmth was ended by the Civil War. Twain went west with his brother Orion to prospect in Nevada but in 1862 joined the staff of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, a paper to which he had already begun submitting his work. Later Twain went to California and submitted "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the New York Saturday Press.

By 1871 Twain had published Innocents Abroad and had married Olivia Langdon, the sister of a friend from a socially prominent New York City family. He and his wife moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where they made their family home for thenext 20 years.

Books that he wrote in Hartford confirmed his popular reputation but despite their success Twain found himself in financial difficulty primarily because of his investments in the Paige typesetting business as well as his own publishing company. Eventually Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy.

Twain's last major books were successful commercially but they also reflect his increasing pessimism. His satire becomes at times more biting and mean-spirited than it is humorous. Despite the downturn in Twain's outlook in later life and despite the unevenness of much of his work, he remains one of the major writers of the American nineteenth century, and one who has been enormously influential on subsequent writers.

前言/序言

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很久没买过英文原版啦，凑单，看看回忆曾经辛苦的岁月。

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很久没买过英文原版啦，凑单，看看回忆曾经辛苦的岁月。

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凑单买的，还行吧。

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很优惠，便携方便，纸张是环保纸，印刷清晰

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书很好看，值得一读。

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好书不错，推荐

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孩子很喜欢，虽然看不懂。

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但它却毫无保留地对我述说着自己的心灵，吐露出它自己最深怀的秘密，而且是用那么清晰而流畅的语音，向我诉说。” 他在密西西比河的航行中，学会了如何倾听河水清晰而流畅的话语，而且因此创造了他的成就。