Puddnhead Wilson
  • Published:
    1894
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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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, 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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    • Jan-1964
    • Signet
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    • ISBN: 0451510836
    • ISBN13: 9780451510839
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    • ISBN: 0451508408
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    • ISBN: 0451512294
    • ISBN13: 9780451512291
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    • Jan-1964
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    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451517431
    • ISBN13: 9780451517432
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    • Feb-1964
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    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0451501845
    • ISBN13: 9780451501844
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    • Feb-1964
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    • ISBN: 0451507037
    • ISBN13: 9780451507037
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    • Jun-1982
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393013375
    • ISBN13: 9780393013375
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    • Feb-1998
    • Simon & Schuster
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    • ISBN: 0684819082
    • ISBN13: 9780684819082
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    • Sep-2003
    • Wildside Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1592241549
    • ISBN13: 9781592241545
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    • Mar-2006
    • 1st World Library
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1421807785
    • ISBN13: 9781421807782
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    • Sep-2006
    • Alan Rodgers Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1598184954
    • ISBN13: 9781598184952
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    • Oct-2005
    • Bantam
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0553901958
    • ISBN13: 9780553901955
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    • Apr-2010
    • eBooksLib
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1412176980
    • ISBN13: 9781412176989
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    • Dec-1982
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 0786105569
    • ISBN13: 9780786105564
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    • Jan-1999
    • Assembled Stories
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 186015428X
    • ISBN13: 9781860154287
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    • Jan-2003
    • Tantor Media
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400130689
    • ISBN13: 9781400130689
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    • Feb-2003
    • Tantor Media
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    • ISBN: 140015068X
    • ISBN13: 9781400150687
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    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1400100682
    • ISBN13: 9781400100682
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    • Jan-2006
    • Echo Library
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1846373220
    • ISBN13: 9781846373220
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    • Sep-2000
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0783891474
    • ISBN13: 9780783891477
    • Large Print



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