Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf 電子書 2025

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內容簡介

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.

作者簡介

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.

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Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 mobi epub pdf txt 電子書 格式

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非常適閤.質量還可以.

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難得好書，全英文的，但是書的開頁有點小，字體也偏小。

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很久沒買過英文原版啦，湊單，看看迴憶曾經辛苦的歲月。

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東西非常好，派送的也不錯，價格也實惠

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孩子很喜歡，雖然看不懂。

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經典的之作，買瞭許多本瞭 ，超喜歡

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類似口袋書，內容經典，筆觸老到，很好！

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全書共六十章，作者以樸素、柔和、正確的語言把密西西比河的偉大容貌描繪得淋灕盡緻，刻畫瞭他親身經曆的十九世紀後半以後的美國社會及其蛻變，使本書成為美國鄉土文學的先驅。 對作者來說，汽船時代正是一段最美麗、最富意義的往昔象徵，代錶瞭自由和冒險的掌舵生活，正是他的夢想和憧憬。

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