Summary
Mark Twain takes a hard look at the consequences of slavery in America in this classic satire.
Set in a town on the Mississippi during the pre-Civil War era, Pudd’nhead Wilson tackles the seminal American issue of slavery in a tragicomedy of switched identities. What happens when a child born free and a child born a slave change places? The result is a biting social commentary with enduring relevance, and a good old-fashioned murder mystery. It also introduces one of Twain’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451530745 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451530748 |
| Author: | Mark Twain |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 4 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 105mm x 172mm |
| Audience Age: | 12-18 |
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“He is a man of force…a blacksmith who stands at his anvil with the fire burning and strikes hard and hits the mark every time.”–Maxim Gorky
“He is a man of force…a blacksmith who stands at his anvil with the fire burning and strikes hard and hits the mark every time.”—Maxim Gorky
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was a man of extraordinary contrasts, both in his person and in his pursuits. Though he left school at twelve upon his father’s death, he was later awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career spanned diverse occupations, including printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He amassed fortunes from his writing but, in his later years, resorted to lecture tours to settle his debts. Twain was known for being hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental, yet also pessimistic, cynical, and plagued by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past fueled some of his most celebrated works. He remains a towering figure in American literature, recognized by William Dean Howells as “the Lincoln of our literature.”
Louis Budd is the author of Mark Twain: Social Philosopher (1962) and Our Mark Twain: The Making of His Public Personality (1983). He also co-edited A Companion to Mark Twain (2005) with Peter Messent. He served as the founding president of the Mark Twain Circle of America.
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