An edition of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Signet Classics)
by Mark Twain
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A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son.
This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.
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Passing (Identity), Race relations, Trials (Murder), Impostors and imposture, Open Library Staff Picks, Slavery, Fiction, Infants switched at birth, Twins, Conjoined twins, Large type books, Missouri, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, Fiction, legal, Slaves, fiction, Twins, fiction, American literature, Satire, american, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, suspense, African americans, fiction, Lawyers, Literature and fiction, historical fiction, Enslaved persons, fiction, Crime, fiction, Fiction, general, Passing (identity), Trials (murder), ClassicsPeople
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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson
Jul 18, 2011, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Brand: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
2005, ICON Classics
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- Webster's German Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
1423776828 9781423776826
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
2005, ICON Classics
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- Webster's Korean Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
2005, ICON Classics
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- Webster's French Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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The Tragedy of Puddin'Head Wilson
March 2001, Quiet Vision Pub
Paperback
in English
1576462552 9781576462553
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Signet Classics)
January 1, 1964, Signet Classics
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0451523741 9780451523747
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"The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis."
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