Twain's memoir of his years as a riverboat pilot and his later return to a changed Mississippi. Part nostalgia, part sharp social observation.
Books mentioned in Life on the Mississippi (12)
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris: “to console them, the book was brought, that they might hear Uncle Remus's Tar-Baby story from the lips of Uncle Remus himself”
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “shown in the effects wrought by 'Don Quixote' and those wrought by 'Ivanhoe.'”
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: “He said he was cast for a part in Julius Caesar, for that night”
Richard III by William Shakespeare: “they got themselves up in cheap royal finery and did the Richard III swordfight with maniac energy”
Alonzo and Melissa: “also, Ossian; 'Alonzo and Melissa:' maybe 'Ivanhoe:' also 'Album,'”
Mississippi-Fahrten by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg: “It is from Chapter VII, of his book, just published, in Leipzig, 'Mississippi-Fahrten, von Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg.'”
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner: “Mr. Warner and I had an experience of the same sort when we wrote the book called 'The Gilded Age.'”
Peboan and Seegwun: “I will offer two of them--'The Undying Head,' and 'Peboan and Seegwun, an Allegory of the Seasons.'”
The Undying Head: “For instance, there was the legend of 'The Undying Head.'”
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “that the tales in Hiawatha were of this sort, and they came from Schoolcraft's book”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “shown in the effects wrought by 'Don Quixote' and those wrought by 'Ivanhoe.'”