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...
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.
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What an enthusiast he was in cattle! At the bare name of a bull or a cow, his eye would light and his eloquent tongue would turn itselfloose. As long as I would walk and listen, he would walk and talk; heknew all breeds, he loved all breeds, he caressed them all with hisaffectionate tongue. I tramped along in voiceless misery whilst thecattle question was up; when I could endure it no longer, I used todeftly insert a scientific topic into the conversation; then my eyefired and his faded; my tongue fluttered, his stopped; life was a joy tome, and a sadness to him.
One day he said, a little hesitatingly, and with somewhat of diffidence--
'Triangle, would you mind coming down to my stateroom a minute, and havea little talk on a certain matter?'
I went with him at once. Arrived there, he put h... (查看原文)
[大雄微笑]终于读完《Life on the Mississippi》这本书，其实文体风格读起来挺不适应的，挺容易读睡着，Mark Twain描写自己慢慢成为steamboat pilot(蒸汽船领航员)的回忆，虽然后面这个职业走向衰落，受南北战争影响，被铁路运输代替, 但在鼎盛时期做为一名pilot，是一个令人羡...
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0 有用 Luke 2014-05-14 22:39:16
一半是当年当引水员的回忆，一半是多年后循河而行的游记。
1 有用 挑动动H bond 2022-04-04 17:59:51
前半部份还比较有趣，后面的不太喜欢。现在已经看了一些英文小说，个人的感觉是英国人写的对我来过更容易读懂一点，美国的小说相对而言，语言风格偏向通俗化、本地化，对于多年受高等教育的我，更难理解一些。马克·吐温被认为是一个幽默风趣的作家。然而我并没有从其作品中感受到幽默。哎，还是吃了文化的亏(^_^*)
0 有用 胡了了 2023-11-16 12:04:12 浙江
英语散文的楷模之作，会让人想到沈从文的汉语散文。
0 有用 猫咪探测器 2022-11-05 15:13:26 福建
闭环读物。 每天都很困🥱
0 有用 Humphrey 2024-10-31 16:24:26 江苏
上水走缓流，下水走主流。20几年前提心吊胆地擦着岸走的情景历历在目。