內容簡介
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.
作者簡介
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, as he was better known was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, the sixth child of John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. His father ran a dry goods and grocery store, practiced law and involved himself in local politics after the family's move to Hannibal, Missouri, when Sam was four years old.
Hannibal seems to have been a good place for a boy to grow up. Sam was entranced by the Mississippi River and enjoyed both the barges and the people who traveled on them. When Sam was just eleven his father died and Sam went to work for his brother at the Hannibal Journal first as a printer's apprentice and later a compositor. While still in his teens Sam went on the road as an itinerant printer. In 1857 he conceived a plan to seek his fortune in South America but on the way he met a steamboat captain, Horace Bixby who took him on as a cub riverboat pilot and taught him until he acquired his own license.
This enjoyable style of life, which Twain always spoke of later with special warmth was ended by the Civil War. Twain went west with his brother Orion to prospect in Nevada but in 1862 joined the staff of the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, a paper to which he had already begun submitting his work. Later Twain went to California and submitted "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to the New York Saturday Press.
By 1871 Twain had published Innocents Abroad and had married Olivia Langdon, the sister of a friend from a socially prominent New York City family. He and his wife moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where they made their family home for thenext 20 years.
Books that he wrote in Hartford confirmed his popular reputation but despite their success Twain found himself in financial difficulty primarily because of his investments in the Paige typesetting business as well as his own publishing company. Eventually Twain was forced to declare bankruptcy.
Twain's last major books were successful commercially but they also reflect his increasing pessimism. His satire becomes at times more biting and mean-spirited than it is humorous. Despite the downturn in Twain's outlook in later life and despite the unevenness of much of his work, he remains one of the major writers of the American nineteenth century, and one who has been enormously influential on subsequent writers.
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Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] 下載 epub mobi pdf txt 電子書
Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] mobi pdf epub txt 電子書 下載 2024
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原版圖書,大愛
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(馬剋·吐溫)寫的的書都寫得很好,[]還是朋友推薦我看的,後來就非非常喜歡,他的書瞭。除瞭他的書,我和我傢小孩還喜歡看鄭淵潔、楊紅櫻、黃曉陽、小橋老樹、王永傑、楊其鐸、曉玲叮當、方洲,他們的書我覺得都寫得很好。,很值得看,價格也非常便宜,比實體店買便宜好多還省車費。書的內容直得一讀,閱讀瞭一下,寫得很好,,.,,.,.,內容也很豐富。,一本書多讀幾次,。快遞送貨也很快。還送貨上樓。非常好。,超值。買書就來來京東商城。價格還比彆傢便宜,還免郵費不錯,速度還真是快而且都是正版書。,買迴來覺得還是非常值的。我喜歡看書,喜歡看各種各樣的書,看的很雜,文學名著,流行小說都看,隻要作者的文筆不是太差,總能讓我從頭到腳看完整本書。隻不過很多時候是當成故事來看,看完瞭感嘆一番也就丟下瞭。所在來這裏買書是非常明智的。然而,目前社會上還有許多人被一些價值不大的東西所束縛,卻自得其樂,還覺得很滿足。經過幾百年的探索和發展,人們對物質需求已不再迫切,但對於精神自由的需求卻無端被抹殺瞭。總之,我認為現代人最缺乏的就是一種開闊進取,尋找最大自由的精神。中國人講虛實相生,天人閤一的思想,於空寂處見流行,於流行處見空寂,從而獲得對於道的體悟,唯道集虛。這在傳統的藝術中得到瞭充分的體現,因此中國古代的繪畫,提倡留白、布白,用空白來錶現豐富多彩的想象空間和廣博深廣的人生意味,體現瞭包納萬物、吞吐一切的胸襟和情懷。讓我得到瞭一種生活情趣和審美方式,伴著筆墨的清香,細細體味,那自由孤寂的靈魂,高尚清真的人格魅力,在尋求美的道路上指引著我,讓我拋棄浮躁的世俗,嚮美學叢林的深處邁進。閤上書,閉上眼,書的餘香猶存,而我腦海裏浮現的,是一個皎皎明月,仙仙白雲,鴻雁高翔,綴葉如雨的衝淡清幽境界。願我們身邊多一些主教般光明的使者,有更多人能加入到助人為樂、見義勇為的隊伍中來。社會需要這樣的人,世界需要這樣的人,隻有這樣我們纔能創造我們的生活,,.,,.,.希望下次還呢繼續購買這裏的書籍,這裏的書籍很好,非常的不錯,。給我帶來瞭不錯的現實享受。希望下次還呢繼續購買這裏的書籍,這裏的書籍很好,非常的不錯,。給我帶來瞭不錯的現實享受。
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是正品挺贊是
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印刷還是不錯的,練習英語瞭
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東西非常好,派送的也不錯,價格也實惠
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紙質不像是歐美原裝用的那種再生紙,還沒開始看呢~
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希望你能越做越好,成長有你有我大傢一起來,很好的寶貝。
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歐美的中小學的確與中國的中小學存在巨大不同,在那裏,學生可以不承受任何壓力。然後在快樂幾年之後,大多數的孩子也就這樣瞭,他們或者去社區大學再混幾年,或者直接去找些底層的體力工作度日,或者直接開始拿失業補助,在街上閑逛。
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Life on the Mississippi密西西比河上的生活 英文原版 [平裝] epub pdf mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024