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.