Description
Featuring the brilliantly drawn Roxanna, a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby, and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson, an ostracized small-town lawyer, Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as "half melodramatic detective story, half bleak tragedy," noting that "morally, it is one of the most honest books in our literature." Those Extraordinary Twins, the slapstick story that evolved into Pudd'nhead Wilson, provides a fascinating view of the author's process. The text for this Modern Library Paperback Classic was set from the 1894 first American edition.
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780812966220
ISBN10: 0812966228
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Humorous | General
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Random House Group
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780812966220
ISBN10: 0812966228
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
Ron Powers, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and native of Hannibal, Missouri, has written twelve books, including Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. He lives in Middlebury, Vermont.