
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Lee Howard
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Mark Twain
At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's son's life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master's. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd'nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author's later works.
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*A word of warning: the use of the "N" word, with a hard "r" is frequently used in this text. Even though I know Twain was anti-racist, and used his tales to point out how ridiculous and random prejudice is, it still took some getting used to hearing that word and feeling it's weighty connotations. I had to keep reminding myself how much books like this aided social progress in the fight for justice and equality by demonstrating the absurdity of racist beliefs.
One of Twain's Hidden Gems!
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