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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

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Vintage Books
15 February 2015
Mark Twain's darkest novel combines a murder mystery and courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race, identity, and slavery. A VINTAGE CLASSICS REISSUE.

Mark Twain's darkest novel-about a master and slave switched at birth-combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity.

Twain's plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master's baby, Tom. Roxy's child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed ""Puddn'head"" Wilson. Twain's novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity. When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy's child discovers that his newfound value as human property outweighs his guilt as a murderer. Despite its ironic humor and the symmetrical neatness of its denouement, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a tragedy that refuses easy answers.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   164g
ISBN:   9781101873113
ISBN 10:   1101873116
Series:   Vintage Classics
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an immensely popular American author and humorist, most acclaimed for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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