Search results
Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by American writer Mark Twain published on 28 November 1894. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white , born to be the master of the house.
- Mark Twain
- 1894
Pudd’nhead Wilson, novel by Mark Twain, originally published as Pudd’nhead Wilson, a Tale (1894). A story about miscegenation in the antebellum South, the book is noted for its grim humour and its reflections on racism and responsibility. Also notable are the ironic epigraphs from a fictional.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Twain's novel Pudd'nhead Wilson can seem like an enigma at first, since it is a story about slavery written almost forty years after the end of the Civil War. Certainly race was still a pressing contemporary issue for Twain at the time: by 1893 Reconstruction had failed and race relations in the United States were a mess.
Pudd'nhead Wilson is a Northerner who comes to the small Missouri town of Dawson's Landing to build a career as a lawyer. Immediately upon his arrival he alienates the townspeople, who don't understand his wit. They give him the nickname "Pudd'nhead" and refuse to give him their legal work.
- Mark Twain
- 1894
Pudd’nhead Wilson is a late novel by American author Mark Twain that was first published in 1894. The story revolves around the peculiar events in a fictional Missouri town, where a slave switches her light-skinned son with the master’s child.
CHAPTER 1 — Pudd’nhead Wins His Name. CHAPTER 2 — Driscoll Spares His Slaves. CHAPTER 3 — Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick. CHAPTER 4 — The Ways of the Changelings. CHAPTER 5 — The Twins Thrill Dawson’s Landing. CHAPTER 6 — Swimming in Glory. CHAPTER 7 — The Unknown Nymph. CHAPTER 8 — Marse Tom Tramples His Chance
Complete summary of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Pudd'nhead Wilson.
