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La vida en el Misisipi es un punto de anclaje en la obra de Mark Twain. Continuamente, el autor regresa a las márgenes del río para contar las más ingeniosas historias con una pluma mordaz e inexorable. En este libro se puede encontrar una imagen detallada de los territorios próximos al “ficticio” pueblo de St. Petersburg de Tom Sawyer, una mirada experimentada del río que recorren Huck Finn y Jim y rasgos del carácter de los vecinos de Wilson Pudd’nhead.
A partir de un agudo repaso por la geografía y la historia de la región, el autor evoca los tiempos más antiguos del río; esta operación la aprovecha para abrillantar los años de su infancia y relatar, con ironía y arrojo, los días que vivieron el auge de la navegación en el Misisipi. En 1882, cuando el autor vuelve al río, el paisaje es muy distinto y el agudo examen que hace del nuevo escenario queda también registrado en la obra.
Este libro, tan personal como espectacular, utiliza las transformaciones del río para revelar otra serie de cambios: del joven piloto romántico al adulto pragmático que viaja como pasajero; del país agreste a la tierra del mito del progreso y, quizá, de Samuel Langhorne Clemence a Mark Twain.
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American Authors, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Juvenile literature, River boats, Description and travel, River life, Classic Literature, Travel, Open Library Staff Picks, Pilots and pilotage, History, Social life and customs, Journeys, Intellectual life, Homes and haunts, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Childhood and youth, Biography, Steamboats, Mississippi River -- Description and travel., Twain, mark, 1835-1910, Mississippi river valley, social life and customs, Mississippi river, description and travel, Authors, biography, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Authors, american, Mississippi river valley, description and travel, Large type books, Manners and customs, Human beings, Philosophical anthropology, Mind and body, Philosophy of mind, Mistaken identity, Voyages around the world, Imperialism, Political corruption, Legislators, Speculation, Businessmen, Political fiction, Americans, Walking, American Humorists, Tom Sawyer (Fictitious character), Balloon ascensions, Knights and knighthood, Kings and rulers, Britons, Time travel, Infants switched at birth, Impostors and imposture, Passing (Identity), Trials (Murder), Race relations, Conjoined twins, Imaginary conversations, Baconian theory, Authorship, American Humorous stories, Ship captains, Imaginary Voyages, Heaven, Satire, American War stories, Storytelling, Runaway children, Boys, Christian women saints, Speeches, addresses, etc., American, Comedy sketches, Huckleberry Finn (Fictitious character), Male friendship, Fugitive slaves, Poor children, Princes, History of Biblical events, Bible, Christian Science, Controversial literature, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, Autorschaft, Belletristische Darstellung, Récits humoristiques américains, Sketches, City lifePeople
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At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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