Life on the Mississippi

Author(s)

• Mark Twain

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)

1. 01- The River and its History
2. 02-The River and Its Explorers
3. 03-Frescoes From the Past
4. 04-The Boys' Ambition
5. 05-I Want to be a Cub-pilot
6. 06-A Cub-pilot's Experience
7. 07-A Daring Deed
8. 08-Perplexing Lessons
9. 09-Continued Perplexities
10. 10-Completing My Education
11. 11-The River Rises
12. 12-Sounding
13. 13-A Pilot's Needs
14. 14-Rank and Dignity of Piloting
15. 15-The Pilots' Monopoly
16. 16-Racing Days
17. 17-Cut-offs and Stephen
18. 18-I Take a Few Extra Lessons
19. 19-Brown and I Exchange Compliments
20. 20-A Catastophe
21. 21-A Section in My Biography
22. 22-I Return to My Muttons
23. 23-Traveling Incognito
24. 24-My Incognito is Exploded
25. 25-From Cairo to Hickman
26. 26-Under Fire
27. 27-Some Imported Articles
28. 28-Uncle Mumford Unloads
29. 29-A Few Specimen Bricks
30. 30-Sketches by the Way
31. 31-A Thumb-print and What Came of It
32. 32-The Disposal of a Bonanza
33. 33-Refreshments and Ethics
34. 34-Tough Yarns
35. 35-Vicksburg During the Trouble
36. 36-The Professor's Yarn
37. 37-The End of the 'Gold Dust'
38. 38-The House Beautiful
39. 39-Manufactures and Miscreants
40. 40-Castles and Culture
41. 41-The Metropolis of the South
42. 42-Hygiene and Sentiment
43. 43-The Art of Inhumation
44. 44-City Sights
45. 45-Southern Sports
46. 46-Enchantments and Enchanters
47. 47-Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable
48. 48-Sugar and Postage
49. 49-Episodes in Pilot Life
50. 50-The 'Original Jacobs'
51. 51-Reminiscences
52. 52-A Burning Brand
53. 53-My Boyhood's Home
54. 54-Past and Present
55. 55-A Vendetta and Other Things
56. 56-A Question of Law
57. 57-An Archangel
58. 58-On the Upper River
59. 59-Legends and Scenery
60. 60-Speculations and Conclusions
61. Appendix A
62. Appendix B
63. Appendix C
64. Appendix D