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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书很好，价格公道。但是忘记上次买类似进口书时因为字小眼睛疼没看完这点了。希望我坚持看完。

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凑单买的，还行吧。

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这本书没有主角，就是马克·吐温对于在密西西比河上生活的回忆。

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性价比高，质量很不错

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挺好的，不过买了一直放着，没看

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该书印刷精美，详细，通俗易懂。

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马克·吐温的杰作多半取材于童年生活，尤其是他在密西西比河上的生活。马克· 吐温这个笔名取自水手的行话，意思是“12英尺深”，指水的深度足以使航船通行无阻。马克·吐温在密西西比河上做船长的时候，沿河航行1200英里，他在一封写给帕密拉莫菲特的信中说：“有的时候，水面似乎变成了一本优美动人的书。对于那些没有受过教育的乘客而言，那书毫无意义。在驾驶河船的时候，马克-吐温学会了像读书一样“阅读”河流。曾经显得并不重要的事情变得充满了意义。美丽的夕阳可能意味着第二天风势强劲；漂浮的圆木通常是在警告河水要上涨了；而任何一个倾斜的痕迹可能意味着一个危险的暗礁就在水面之下。这些关于河流的知识虽然有益，但也是有代价的。马克-吐温在密西西比河上的经验使他失去了纯真。当了河船驾驶员数年之后，他难过地说道：“所有的优雅、美丽、诗意，都从壮丽的河上消失了。”(编按：马克-吐温是指，本来以前可以单纯欣赏河上的美景，但因为学汽船，河流的一动一静都变得具有复杂的意义，令他感伤不已。)

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挺好的，不过买了一直放着，没看