Life on the Mississippi
Americannoun
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From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
In Life on the Mississippi, he makes light of his alter ego:
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2017
Literary scholarship generally credits Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi with being the first manuscript submitted to a publisher in typewritten form.
From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2013
I have used it to download free copies of books that are out of copyright like The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Art of War, Life on the Mississippi and Moby Dick.
From Forbes ● Mar. 1, 2011
In Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain makes the period of his study from two to two and a half years, but this is merely an attempt to magnify his dullness.
From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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