Summary
A gem among the author’s later works.
At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson, a young slave 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, 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553211580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0553211587 |
| Author: | Mark Twain |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2005 |
| Weight: | 85g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 105mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Bantam Classics |
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About The Author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological “wonder” that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about “the damned human race.”
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