Puddnhead Wilson And Other Tales

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a sober kind, picturing life in a little town of Missouri, half a century ago. The principal incidents relate to a slave of mixed blood and her almost pure white son, whom she substitutes for her master's baby. The slave by birth grows up in wealth and luxury, but turns out a peculiarly mean scoundrel, and perpetrating a crime, meets with due justice. The science of fingerprints is practically illustrated in detecting the fraud. The title character is the village atheist, whose maxims doubtless express much of the author's own disillusion.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504548
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales written by Mark Twain and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works `Those Extraordinary Twins' and `The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0199554714
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales written by Mark Twain and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps his only real novel. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, it reveals the sinister forces that, towards the end of his life, Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. The central plot revolves around the tragedy of 'Roxy', a mulato slave whose attempt to save her son from his fate succeeds only in destroying him. In spite of a storyline that includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial difference."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192837301
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pudd'nhead Wilson written by Mark Twain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her master's.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781607103165
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Canterbury Classics. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's the new, complete, and uncensored version of his autobiography hitting bestseller lists or the removal of certain controversial language from one of his novels, his name and his legacy remain a topic of conversation--and undoubtedly will for years to come. There's no better time to appreciate his stories, or read them for the very first time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson are collected in this timeless and elegant book. Part of the Canterbury Classics series, Mark Twain features a beautiful cover, a ribbon bookmark, and other elements to enhance the reading experience, along with an introduction by a renowned Twain scholar that will enlighten new and familiar readers alike. This edition of Mark Twain is a treasure to enjoy forever--just like the writing of Twain himself!

Author : Susan Gillman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381621
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson written by Susan Gillman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection seeks to place Pudd’nhead Wilson—a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain’s—in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors’ introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd’nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in the text itself. Such wrinkles and gaps, the authors find, are the symptoms of an inconclusive, even evasive, but culturally illuminating struggle to confront and resolve difficult questions bearing on race and sex. Such fresh, intellectually enriching perspectives on the novel arise directly from the broad-based interdisciplinary foundations provided by the participating scholars. Drawing on a wide variety of critical methodologies, the essays place the novel in ways that illuminate the world in which it was produced and that further promise to stimulate further study. Contributors. Michael Cowan, James M. Cox, Susan Gillman, Myra Jehlen, Wilson Carey McWilliams, George E. Marcus, Carolyn Porter, Forrest Robinson, Michael Rogin, John Carlos Rowe, John Schaar, Eric Sundquist

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294424
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls & Daring Young Women written by Mark Twain and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of thirteen stories about unconventional girls and women.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those Extraordinary Twins Annotated written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain.Its central intrigue revolves around two boys--one, born into slavery,the other,white,born to be the master of the house.The two boys,who look similar,are switched at infancy.Each grows into the other's social role.Originally part of the Pudd'nhead Wilson book, Twain realised during the writing process that the twins were taking a backseat to characters such as Pudd'nhead Wilson,Roxy,and Tom Driscoll.As a result,he took them out and gave them their own short story. He explains all this in the Introduction to this book.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521262200
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Writings written by Mark Twain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-05-31 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: