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Book Review of Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Masterful evocation of times gone, and places, vanished. Some of the tales tend to have "color added" in the Twain tradition, but they are invariably interesting. Twain's warnings of the futility of taming the mighty river will sound surprisingly familiar in light of the events of 2011.