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Pudd’nhead Wilson a Tale
(The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson)
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| Author(s): | Mark Twain |
| Illustrator(s): | James Mapes Dodge Louis Loeb |
| Publisher(s): | Chatto & Windus |
| Year Published: | 1894 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | American Boys Growing Up Fiction - Novel Mystery |
| Age Range: | Ages 9-12: Longer Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 246 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 224492059 |
Description
A slave woman switches her son for the son of her master. Is it nature or nurture that forms character? This first British edition does not include The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, published in the first American edition. Read online at Hathitrust.
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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894)
The son of a free woman and the son of a slave woman are switched at birth. Is it nature or nurture that determines their character? Those Extraordinary Twins was written first as a satire, but the story of the two children and Pudd’nhead Wilson became such a large part of it that it was hived off as its own tragedy. Read online at Hathitrust. Or at archive.org.
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