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Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson, a compelling drama that contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery: reversed identities, a ghastly crime, an eccentric detective, and a tense courtroom scene. First published in 1894, Twain's novel bristles with suspense. David "Pudd’nhead" Wilson, a wise but unorthodox lawyer who collects fingerprints as a hobby, wins back the respect of his townspeople when he solves a local murder in which two foreigners are falsely accused. Witty and absorbing, this novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime. This gem was Twain's last novel about the antebellum South; and despite its frequent injections of humor, it offers a fierce condemnation of racial prejudice and a society that condoned slavery.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1999
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- Titre
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Mark Twain
- Éditeur
- Dover Publications
- Publié
- 1999
- ISBN10
- 048640885x
- ISBN13
- 9780486408859
- Séries
- Recueil
- Dover thrift editions
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Humour, Classiques, États-Unis, L'école, Littérature américaine, 19e siècle, Criminalistique, Race, Racisme, Esclavage, Mississippi
- Titre original
- Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Évaluation
- 3,7 sur 5
- Description
- Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson, a compelling drama that contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery: reversed identities, a ghastly crime, an eccentric detective, and a tense courtroom scene. First published in 1894, Twain's novel bristles with suspense. David "Pudd’nhead" Wilson, a wise but unorthodox lawyer who collects fingerprints as a hobby, wins back the respect of his townspeople when he solves a local murder in which two foreigners are falsely accused. Witty and absorbing, this novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime. This gem was Twain's last novel about the antebellum South; and despite its frequent injections of humor, it offers a fierce condemnation of racial prejudice and a society that condoned slavery.