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

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Mark Twain（馬剋·吐溫） 著

齣版社： Random House

ISBN：9780553213492

商品編碼：19017207

包裝：平裝

叢書名： Bantam Classics

齣版時間：1998-10-05

頁數：312

正文語種：英文

商品尺寸：11.43x2.29x18.29cm

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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馬剋·吐溫的傑作多半取材於童年生活，尤其是他在密西西比河上的生活。馬剋· 吐溫這個筆名取自水手的行話，意思是“12英尺深”，指水的深度足以使航船通行無阻。馬剋·吐溫在密西西比河上做船長的時候，沿河航行1200英裏，他在一封寫給帕密拉莫菲特的信中說：“有的時候，水麵似乎變成瞭一本優美動人的書。對於那些沒有受過教育的乘客而言，那書毫無意義。在駕駛河船的時候，馬剋-吐溫學會瞭像讀書一樣“閱讀”河流。曾經顯得並不重要的事情變得充滿瞭意義。美麗的夕陽可能意味著第二天風勢強勁；漂浮的圓木通常是在警告河水要上漲瞭；而任何一個傾斜的痕跡可能意味著一個危險的暗礁就在水麵之下。這些關於河流的知識雖然有益，但也是有代價的。馬剋-吐溫在密西西比河上的經驗使他失去瞭純真。當瞭河船駕駛員數年之後，他難過地說道：“所有的優雅、美麗、詩意，都從壯麗的河上消失瞭。”(編按：馬剋-吐溫是指，本來以前可以單純欣賞河上的美景，但因為學汽船，河流的一動一靜都變得具有復雜的意義，令他感傷不已。)

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