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What is the purpose of Twain's life on the Mississippi?

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Life on the Mississippi was the book that launched the now well known Samuel Clemens' career as a “serious” author.

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In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain states that his overriding ambition as a boy was to be a steamboatman, an ambition he shared with his friends.

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