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.
Genres
- 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 life
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