Pudd'nhead Wilson (Paperback, New Impression)

In Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain returns to the idyllic river community of his childhood. The flashes of farce and general comic exuberance which enlivened Huckleberry Finn are sustained in this later work; but the mood is altogether more restless and critical. Twain uses certain stock characters and devices, such as the sardonic cracker-barrel philosopher, the scoundrel unmasked, and the substitution of babies, to build up a complex, ironical and morally disturbing account of human nature under slavery. As Malcolm Bradbury shows, some of the novel's ambiguities result from the peculiar circumstances in which it was written; originally a slight comedy of identity based on Siamese twins, it developed into something much more ambitious, and finally Twain discarded most of the original plot: 'I pulled one of the stories out by the roots - a kind of literary Caesarean operation.' Those Extraordinary Twins, the short story from which the novel grew, is also printed in this volume.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2004
First published:	September 1969
Authors:	Mark Twain
Editors:	Malcolm Bradbury
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	336
Edition:	New Impression
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-043040-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	0-14-043040-7
Barcode:	9780140430400

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