
Pudd'nhead Wilson
A Tale by Mark Twain
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Narrated by:
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Richard Henzel
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By:
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Mark Twain
This humorous, dramatic, and sometimes shocking novel, set in the pre-war south, is the tale of Roxy, a beautiful and intelligent slave woman who contrives to save her own light-skinned child from being "sold down the river". She successfully switches her baby with the master's own child, starting a chain of events that lead to surprising and tragic results.
This book is considered by many to be Mark Twain's best book dealing with the cruelty, horror, and inhumanity of slavery in 19th century America. Pudd'nhead, the title character, not only provides humorous aphorisms and wry observations on the little river town, he also proves to be the catalyst that solves the mystery, radically changing the lives of all of those involved.
Interestingly, Mark Twain's use of fingerprints as evidence in a fictional criminal trial predated the official acceptance of such evidence in actual U.S. courts by two years.
This recording is a recreation of Mark Twain's own reading, just as his family might have heard the story for the first time in the family library.
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Critic reviews
"Superb...one of the best readings of a Mark Twain book to which I've ever listened, and I've listened to almost all of them. An energetic and remarkably impassioned narration that brings out the powerful emotions and ironies of one of Mark Twain's complex works and adds new dimensions." (R. Kent Rasmussen, author of Mark Twain A to Z and audiobook reviewer for Library Journal)
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Not his best, but one of Twain's better ones
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A really interesting book
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Read it before they ban it!
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Twists and turns along the way!!
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And his legendary mastery of storytelling is nowhere more on display than in this lineup of characters, from small-town Missouri busybodies to a pair of aristocratic Italian twins (see “Those Extraordinary Twins” for a kind of first draft of this book, included in the 1894 edition).
Richard Henzel, who for many years has performed the one-man show, “Mark Twain in Person,” delivers a robust multi-character reading, while Twain delivers a work of the imagination that offers surprises right up to the closing paragraph.
A Tale of Babies Switched in the Cradle
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Good Plot
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"Sell Them Down the River"
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