About this title: Mark Twain's classic satirical tale of race and identity. Roxana, a light-skinned slave nurse on a large Southern plantation, is desperate to give her son a better chance at life than she had ever enjoyed, and so she switches him with the master's son. Years later, when Roxana's real son has turned to gambling, murder, and theft, it is the country lawyer, Pudd'nhead Wilson, who unmasks the true identity of the two. Considered Twain's most courageous work, this short novel is one of the most sensitive treatments of slavery in American fiction.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Airmont Pub Co
Date Published: 1966
ISBN-13:9780804901246ISBN:0804901244
Description: Good. 0804901244. Good, clean tight copy-with discolouration of page edges commensurate with age. Prompt dispatch to you from York; 1014W713868AZ11. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Markings Inside Front Cover, Water Damage Top Right Corner, Back Cover Corner Creased, Text Is Unmarked, Good Reading Copy. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780553211580ISBN:0553211587
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 160 p. Bantam Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 143 p. Bantam Classics. Audience: General/trade. age discoloration read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1964
Description: Good. 1964. Signet Classics. Paperback. Prior owner marks inside front cover. Moderate reading wear. Tanned pages. Slight curve from storage. Ship same or next day. More Mark Twain books in our store. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Airmont, New York
Date Published: 1966
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. cover and binding wear and creases. 160 p.; 19 cm. Airmont classic; CL124. Airmont classics series; CL124.. read more
"This was the first Mark Twain book I've read, and I enjoyed it so much I finished it in 2 days. This book had it all: humor, tragedy, mystery, and even a little romance. It was definitely one of those books that makes you want to scream at the characters and tell them to open their eyes because the obvious truth is right under their nose but they can't seem to see it."
"I am not the biggest Twain fan, but I did enjoy this book more than the others I've read by him. It does raise interesting, though often problematic, questions about race, Jim Crow laws, and Eugenics. I find myself puzzling over this text days after having completed it, trying to suss out Twain's views as represented (as much as such an enterprise can be done). In the end, this book made me laugh and made me think, which is a win in my book."
"I wish Goodreads allowed for 1/2 stars because I would have given this book 3 1/2. This book had a hard time keeping my attention. After each chapter, I just wasn't interested enough to move on to the next chapter, so I would find myself reading only one chapter at each reading (and these are short chapters!). It ended as only a true classic could, and after I finished the book, I was glad to have read it."
"This book is actually 1 story that the author later split into 2 before publishing it. The first one, Pudd'nhead Wilson (the one pulled from the original) is much better than the second, Those Extrodinary Twins, (original story). One thing that bugged me about both of them is the first might have been pretty rascist and the second was making fun of siamese twins. I might give the first one 3 stars because it is entertaining. The second one, thank God, was shorter.
REVIEW WHILE I WAS READING: I have had this book for atleast 10 years, now I'm finally reading it! Its nice so far. I had a dream last night in colors as if I were a character in the book; that is how I knew I found another book to read, after going through a few books part-way unsatisfied."
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