Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

⏱ 7 minAmerican classic

A guided tour of Twain's great memoir of the river he loved: the boy aching to be a steamboat pilot, the exacting master Mr Bixby, the hard apprenticeship of learning twelve hundred miles of shifting river by heart, and the return twenty years later to a river changed forever.

Listen to the whole of Life on the Mississippi in about 7 minutes — professionally narrated, with Apple-Music-style synced subtitles. One book free every day; Folio Premium unlocks the entire library.