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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Twain, Mark
Sollors, Werner

Paperback

Series: John Harvard Library, Book 145

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 0674059832
ISBN13: 9780674059832
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: Feb 9 2015
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

When a murder takes place in Dawson's Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd black son who has been raised white, and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd'nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than it is the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man.

In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. This edition follows the text of the 1899 De Luxe edition and for the first time reprints all the E. W. Kemble illustrations that accompanied it.

Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.

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