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And Those Extraordinary Twins
$28.86
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2004
Summary
Twain’s later work, exploring race and identity in the Deep South.
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. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140430400 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140430407 |
| Author: | Mark Twain, Malcolm Bradbury |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin English Library |
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Mark Twain
Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, Mark Twain spent his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, which forms the setting for his two greatest works, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Trying his hand at printing, typesetting and then gold-mining, the former steam-boat pilot eventually found his calling in journalism and travel writing. Dubbed ‘the father of American literature’ by William Faulkner, Twain died in 1910 after a colourful life of travelling, bankruptcy and great literary success.
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