Pudd'nhead Wilson

Name: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Brand: Dover Publications
SKU: 9780486408859
Price: 4.25 USD
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Item# 9780486408859

$4.25

Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple... Read more

Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson a compelling drama.. Read less

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Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson a compelling drama that contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery: reversed identities a ghastly crime an eccentric detective and a tense courtroom scene.
First published in 1894 Twain's novel bristles with suspense. David "Pudd’nhead" Wilson a wise but unorthodox lawyer who collects fingerprints as a hobby wins back the respect of his townspeople when he solves a local murder in which two foreigners are falsely accused. Witty and absorbing this novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime. This gem was Twain's last novel about the antebellum South; and despite its frequent injections of humor it offers a fierce condemnation of racial prejudice and a society that condoned slavery.