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Pudd'nhead Wilson narration, as well as the thematic treatment of lies highlighted by the aphorisms, are part of Twain's strategy for revealing a "tall tale" quality in the antebellum South. The funda- mental imbalance of a slave-based aristocracy functions as an art- ful lie woven into the history of America.
Mar 5, 2023 · CHAPTER I. Pudd’nhead Wins His Name. Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar. The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
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Aug 18, 2006 · —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar. About four days out from Victoria we plunged into hot weather, and all the male passengers put on white linen clothes. One or two days later we crossed the 25th parallel of north latitude, and then, by order, the officers of the ship laid away their blue uniforms and came out in white linen ones.
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar Thomas W. Ford University of Houston A. B. Paine believes that it is Pudd'nhead's calendar that makes Pudd'nhead Wilson an immortal book: "But it is chiefly Pudd'nhead Wilson's maxims, run at the head of each chapter, that will stick in the memory of men. Perhaps the book would live without these, but
CHAPTER I. Pudd’nhead Wins His Name. Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.—Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar. The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
Jun 24, 2004 · —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. We soon reached the town of Nelson, and spent the most of the day there, visiting acquaintances and driving with them about the garden—the whole region is a garden, excepting the scene of the "Maungatapu Murders," of thirty years ago.
—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar. July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.—Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar.
