<Tab/>Widely regarded as one of American literature's most admired and prominent writers, Mark Twain outlines his work based primarily on his own life experiences. His classic masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, as well as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Life on the Mississippi, are interjected and layered with personal tales, themes which outline the many contrasts between beauty and nastiness, river adventures, and moral and individual perceptions representative …showed first 75 words of 2488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2488 total…Mark Twain Reader. Garden City: Doublecay and <Tab/>Company, Inc., 1977. Pullen, Charles. "Mark Twain." Magill's Survey of American Literature. Ed. Frank <Tab/>Magill. Vol. 6. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1991. Smith, Henry, ed. Mark Twain. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1963. Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: Osgood, 1883. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Webster, 1885. Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1876.