Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

64 chapters14h 47mEnglish1883

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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)

Chapters (64)

101- The River and its History

910

202-The River and Its Explorers

752

303-Frescoes From the Past

1914

404-The Boys' Ambition

604

505-I Want to be a Cub-pilot

561

606-A Cub-pilot's Experience

912

707-A Daring Deed

808

808-Perplexing Lessons

799

909-Continued Perplexities

832

1010-Completing My Education

746

1111-The River Rises

891

1212-Sounding

791

1313-A Pilot's Needs

1074

1414-Rank and Dignity of Piloting

859

1515-The Pilots' Monopoly

1479

1616-Racing Days

719

1717-Cut-offs and Stephen

991

1818-I Take a Few Extra Lessons

716

1919-Brown and I Exchange Compliments

480

2020-A Catastophe

723

2121-A Section in My Biography

103

2222-I Return to My Muttons

1066

2323-Traveling Incognito

404

2424-My Incognito is Exploded

715

2525-From Cairo to Hickman

760

2626-Under Fire

857

2727-Some Imported Articles

705

2828-Uncle Mumford Unloads

1105

2929-A Few Specimen Bricks

1231

3030-Sketches by the Way

1062

3131-A Thumb-print and What Came of It

1937

3232-The Disposal of a Bonanza

530

3333-Refreshments and Ethics

629

3434-Tough Yarns

256

3535-Vicksburg During the Trouble

1054

3636-The Professor's Yarn

838

3737-The End of the 'Gold Dust'

130

3838-The House Beautiful

852

3939-Manufactures and Miscreants

764

4040-Castles and Culture

770

4141-The Metropolis of the South

546

4242-Hygiene and Sentiment

526

4343-The Art of Inhumation

502

4444-City Sights

902

4545-Southern Sports

1065

4646-Enchantments and Enchanters

571

4747-Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable

311

4848-Sugar and Postage

857

4949-Episodes in Pilot Life

731

5050-The 'Original Jacobs'

705

5151-Reminiscences

892

5252-A Burning Brand

1539

5353-My Boyhood's Home

651

5454-Past and Present

1026

5555-A Vendetta and Other Things

789

5656-A Question of Law

671

5757-An Archangel

815

5858-On the Upper River

836

5959-Legends and Scenery

934

6060-Speculations and Conclusions

995

61Appendix A

1415

62Appendix B

539

63Appendix C

541

64Appendix D

1912

Life on the Mississippi

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