Pudd'nhead Wilson

Name: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781580493383

by Mark Twain

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This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader appreciate Twain's perspective on the human race.UNLEASHING THE ACERBIC WIT for which he was already famous, Mark Twain released Pudd'nhead Wilson in 1894 to a public not quite prepared for the American satirist's dark attack on lingering racism following the Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction. The stories of twin Italian circus performers, a beautiful slave, and a lawyer wh

First published 1894146 pages

813.403

Category: Literature
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 8
Editions known: 250

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 813.403813.4[Fic]
Library of Congress (LCC): PS1317.A1PS1317.A1 1981PS1317 Pu24PS1317 Pu22

Subjects

AdvertisingAfrican americans, fictionAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)American literatureClassicsConjoined twinsCrime, fictionEnslaved persons, fictionFictionFiction, generalFiction, historicalFiction, historical, general

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ISBN 9781580493383English

DATE DUE

First published1894

StatusREAD

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