Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain MarkPaperback
Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain MarkPaperback Mark Twain's darkest novel--about a master and slave switched at birth--combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity.Twain's plot…
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Twain MarkPaperback
Mark Twain's darkest novel--about a master and slave switched at birth--combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity.Twain's plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master's baby, Tom. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed "Puddn'head" Wilson. Roxy's child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth.
When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy's child discovers that his newfound value as Twain's novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity.