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Original Title:	The Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson
ISBN:	0553211587 (ISBN13: 9780553211580)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Roxana Langley, David Pudd'nhead Wilson, Roxanne
Setting:	United States of America Missouri(United States)

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 20752 Users | 1229 Reviews

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Title	:	Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author	:	Mark Twain
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	1984 by Bantam Classics (first published May 10th 1893)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. Humor

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At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's 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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4 stars for Pudd'nhead Wilson, 2 stars for Those Extraordinary Twins.



Glad that is over !I did not like this book much.The idea of the infant switching was a good one, but then it got too convoluted and became a chore to continue reading.The excessive use of the slave dialect was maddening and tiresome and this most certainly is not my favorite work by Twain at all.

Read quite a few years back but never forgot it.

If you consider a mans best books to be the ones with the most consistent tone and the fewest flaws, then Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper are Mark Twains best works of fiction. If, however, best means the most interesting, the most resonant, even if the flaws are considerable and the results problematic, then that honor belongs to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, Huckleberry Finn areI would argueThe Tragedy of Puddinhead Wilson too.The flaws and the problems of Twains fiction

Pudd'nhead Wilson is a brisk, strange concoction of adventure, mystery and social commentary. It is also a disjointed combination of the astute and the naive; Twain shows biting commentary on the wickedness of slave laws, but appears to condone the 'honor' of the barbaric custom of dueling; he cleverly explains the forensic power of fingerprints (before they were used commonly in criminal investigation) but also ascribes scientific power to the flim-flammery of palmistry. Even the title feels

A+ for Mark Twain! This is my first book that I have read by him, and I found it absolutely amazing. For one, I am not usually a fan of classic books (or maybe I just haven't really given myself a chance at them), but I found myself engaged and ready to finish this book as fast as I could.Surprisingly, this was one of our books for English III that we had to read. I just finished it, and I just can't stop saying just how great it was. I am shocked by how Mark Twain was able to create such an