Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary

Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by the classic novelist Mark Twain. In this novel, a slave switches her child with the child of her master in order to protect him from the darker side of slavery. The child grows to be spoiled and cruel, treating his own mother with disdain until he learns the truth of his birth. Frightened of being discovered, this young man commits the one crime that will...

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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

62,710 words, approx. 210 pages

A WHISPER TO THE READER There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.  Observe the ass, for instance:  his character is abo... Read more

Mark Twain Biographies (10)

Mark Twain

2,349 words, approx. 8 pages

Mark Twain (1835-1910), American humorist and novelist, captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's shortcomings that is humorous even while it probes, oft... Read more

Mark Twain

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

6,308 words, approx. 22 pages

At the end of a long and prolific career with the pen, America's favorite humorist grew reflective about his craft, yet kept his tongue firmly planted in his cheek: "I have always been able to gain my... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

10,254 words, approx. 35 pages

In the early spring of 1835, John Marshall Clemens and his wife, Jane, loaded up their possessions, their five children, and their single slave, in Three Forks, Tennessee, to move to Missouri. It was ... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

7,170 words, approx. 24 pages

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to America and the world as Mark Twain, is one of the most loved and read men of American letters. Especially noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) a... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

7,891 words, approx. 27 pages

Mark Twain is the best-known and most-beloved American writer in the world, and his stature as the quintessential American writer rests in large part upon his "westernness." Born at the edge of the fr... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

5,257 words, approx. 18 pages

For the readers of the late nineteenth century Samuel Clemens was first and foremost a travel writer, not a novelist. He earned his greatest respect and patronage from his contemporaries not for being... Read more

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

17,900 words, approx. 60 pages

Mark Twain's work captures the child that lives in the American psyche and also presents the confusions of the American adult. As a mature writer, Twain could recreate the small-town boyhood he had kn... Read more

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Pudd'nhead Wilson Summary

388 words, approx. 2 pages

The entire book is based on a little town called Dawson's Landing in Missouri and the separation between blacks and whites at the time. One day a man called David Wilson came to the quiet town. He m... Read more

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