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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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Other Editions

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.

Publisher: American Publishing Co.
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