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337 pp. Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by American writer Mark Twain published in 1894. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy.
- Mark Twain
- 1894
Pudd’nhead Wilson, novel by Mark Twain, originally published as Pudd’nhead Wilson, a Tale (1894). A story about miscegenation in the antebellum South, the book is noted for its grim humour and its reflections on racism and responsibility. Also notable are the ironic epigraphs from a fictional.
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The serial ran from December 1893 to June 1894 with six illustrations by Louis Loeb (b. 1866 - d. 1909). In November 1894 American Publishing Company issued the first book edition, based on the Century Magazine version, as a subscription book.
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Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson can seem like an enigma at first, since it is a story about slavery written almost forty years after the end of the Civil War. Certainly race was still a pressing contemporary issue for Twain at the time: by 1893 Reconstruction had failed and race relations in the United States were a mess.
Apr 30, 2024 · Mark Twain. Univ of California Press, Apr 30, 2024 - Fiction - 872 pages. This critical edition publishes—for the first time anywhere—the original manuscript and revised versions of...
This critical edition publishes—for the first time anywhere—the original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Mark Twain's story of the antebellum South, first published in 1894, continues to prompt conversations about race and the dire legacy of American slavery.
By Mark Twain. This is a copyrighted computer-generated audio performance of Project Gutenberg's public domain book, "Pudd'nhead Wilson", by Mark Twain. Please read the License before distributing this eBook. Free use and distribution is encouraged! It is available as a series of MP3 files, one file per chapter. 9035-000.mp3.
