Description: Pudd'nhead Wilson : The Authoritative Edition, With Those Extraordinary Twins, Hardcover by Twain, Mark; Griffin, Benjamin (EDT), ISBN 0520398092, ISBN-13 9780520398092, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This critical edition publishes—for the first time anywhere—the original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Mark Twain's story of the antebellum South, first published in 1894, continues to prompt conversations about race and the dire legacy of American slavery. At its heart is Roxy, a mixed-race woman enslaved to a wealthy Missouri family. To save her infant son (whose father was white) from being "sold down the river," Roxy switches him in the cradle with her master's son, setting in motion a train of ironic and bitter events. With its mixture of farce, social commentary, tragedy, and satire, Pudd'nhead Wilson has come to be one of Mark Twain's most-read and most-studied works. But few have read the original Pudd'nhead Wilson. The text familiar since 1894, as editor Benjamin Griffin shows, was heavily edited and censored—first by the author himself under pressure from family and friends, then by his publishers. Now the Mark Twain Project makes available the full text of the Morgan Library manuscript (the original version), together with a critical text of the revised version, stripped of the changes imposed by Mark Twain's editors and publishers—two fascinating ways to encounter this troubled and troubling novel.
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Book Title: Pudd'nhead Wilson : the Authoritative Edition, with Those Extraordinary Twins
Number of Pages: 872 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 2.2 in
Topic: Classics, Coming of Age
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 46.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Mark Twain
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: The Works of Mark Twain Ser.
Format: Hardcover