“I loved this job more than any other I had later; I was incredibly proud of It”, a unique Mark Twain wrote. He didn’t write this about literature but about his job as a pilot. In the days of his youth he had a chance to spend five years on the powerful Mississippi river, he navigated ships up and down the river. That’s how Life on the Mississippi, one of his best and unusual books, appeared.
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