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Pudd'nhead Wilson

By Mark Twain

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| eBook | 9780141920337

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Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The induContinue

Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions. The indulged Tom (now heir to a fortune rightfully that of Chambers) goes to Yale, where he learns how to drink and gamble, while Chambers looks set to remain a subservient drudge. But then a strange sequence of events begins - one in which the much-derided lawyer, 'Pudd'nhead' Wilson, has a key part to play - and changes everything. Darkly ironic, blending farce and tragedy, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a complex and fascinating depiction of human nature under slavery.

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  • The newborn slave looks white (because he is more than half white). His mother is afraid that her son will be sold down the river, so she switches him with her master's baby of the same age. No one knows the difference but her. She raises them both, but treats her son as her master and her master as ... (continue)

    The newborn slave looks white (because he is more than half white). His mother is afraid that her son will be sold down the river, so she switches him with her master's baby of the same age. No one knows the difference but her. She raises them both, but treats her son as her master and her master as her son.

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