Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

TWAIN,M

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Author
TWAIN,M
Publish Date
03/01/1981
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
NORTON
Number of Pages
384
Edition
First Edition
ISBN-10
0393950271
ISBN-13
9780393950274
SKU
9780393950274

Description

Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery.