The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
โ Scribed by Twain, Mark
- Book ID
- 106950711
- Publisher
- DotLit Press - eBooks formatted for MSReader
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 120 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
fiction; prose, LCSH
Mark Twain's book is a story of mixed babies and the ingenious detection of crime. It is not altogether another " Hucklebury Finn." On the other hand, it is a relief to find that it is not another " Yankee at King Arthur's Court." Roxy, the slave woman who changes the babies, is a delightful charact
Switched at birth by a female slave who fears for her infant son's life, a light-skinned child changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise underlies Twain's engrossing 19th-century tale of reversed identities, an eccentric detective, a horrible crime, and a tense courtroom scene.