Mark Twain – Mississippi Writings

CONTENTS:

— Tom Sawyer

— Life on the Mississippi

— Huckleberry Finn

— Pudd'nhead Wilson

Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada.