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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Mark Twain's novel follows two boys, one born into slavery and one free, who are switched in infancy, and the lawyer whose fingerprint analysis later untangles the resulting crimes. It suits readers interested in classic American fiction, courtroom mystery, and questions of race and identity.
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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