Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 9 · 5,932 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Authors, American — 19th century — Biography · Mississippi River — Description and travel · Mississippi River Valley — Social life and customs — 19th century · Pilots and pilotage — Mississippi River

Words worth knowing: sidewise · inundate · comeliness · genuineness · picturesqueness · consumptive · maudlin · burdensome

Earliest PG text edition produced by Graham Allan LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI By Mark Twain TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I.

The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.--It is Remarkable.--Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.--It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.--It was First Seen in 1542.--It is Older than some Pages in European History.--De Soto has the Pull.--Older than the Atlantic Coast.--Some Half-breeds chip in.--La Salle Thinks he will Take a Hand.

La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish.--Buffaloes also.--Some Indian Paintings are Seen on the Rocks.--“The Father of Waters “does not Flow into the Pacific.--More History and Indians.

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