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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

Twain, Mark
Gooder, R. D.

Paperback

Series: Oxford World's Classics

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $11.95

ISBN10: 0199554714
ISBN13: 9780199554713
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 15 2009
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction. It reveals the sinister forces that, towards the end of his life, Twain thought to be threatening the American dream. The central plot revolves around the tragedy of Roxy, a mulatto slave whose attempt to save her son from his fate succeeds only in destroying him. An astringent work which raises the serious issue of racial difference, Pudd'nhead Wilson is considered by the critic F.R. Leavis to be a classic of the use of popular modes--the sensational and the melodramatic. The volume also includes two other late works by Twain, Those Extraordinary Twins and The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.

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