Life on the Mississippi is an autobiographical work of Mark Twain, ing his days as a steamboat pilot in the river of Mississippi during 1880s. Not only this book has made Mark Twain as a serious writer, but also inspired him to write one of his most popular novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

This book is spanned around Mark Twain’s boyhood life and also the development took place in around the cities of Mississippi river during the period when steam boats were introduces. However this book lacks a bit of entertainment and casual reader may not be interested to read it completely. This book is having lot of sketches portrayed by the author himself, and it was submitted for publication in a typewritten manuscript.

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