Pudd''nhead Wilson
by
Mark Twain
Book Details
Format
Paperback / softback
ISBN-10
0140430407
ISBN-13
9780140430400
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 2004
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
252 grams
Dimensions
19.80 x 12.90 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Classic fiction: literary and generalClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions.
Written as a sharp social commentary, Mark Twain’s scathing novel of mistaken identity and racial inequality remains strikingly relevant today—with an introduction by Langston Hughes.
At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson a young enslaved woman, fearing for her infant son’s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master’s. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining and funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd’nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.
Written in 1894, Pudd’nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author’s later works.
At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson a young enslaved woman, fearing for her infant son’s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master’s. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining and funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd’nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes.
Written in 1894, Pudd’nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author’s later works.
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