Pudd'nhead Wilson

by Twain, Mark (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780451508409
• ISBN10: 0451508408
• Format: Trade Book
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins contain Twain's most overt treatment of the moral and societal implications of slavery in America. This Norton Critical Edition remains the only edition available that is based on completely re-edited texts, accounting for all versions that Twain might have written or influenced. All substantive variants in the two separate "first editions," one printed in Britain and the other in the United States, have been reconciled in this collated edition, with all rejected variants tabulated. Dozens of additional illustrations accompany the text, and all textual variants, accepted or rejected, are included. "Criticism" includes twenty-three reviews and interpretive essays, eight of them new to the Second Edition, including those by Andrew Jay Hoffman, Myra Jehlen, and John Carlos Rowe.A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
A Whisper to the Reader	p. xv
Pudd'nhead Wins His Name	p. 1
Driscoll Spares His Slaves	p. 6
Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick	p. 13
The Ways of the Changelings	p. 18
The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing	p. 26
Swimming in Glory	p. 31
The Unknown Nymph	p. 35
Marse Tom Tramples His Chance	p. 39
Tom Practises Sycophancy	p. 48
The Nymph Revealed	p. 53
Pudd'nhead's Startling Discovery	p. 57
The Shame of Judge Driscoll	p. 70
Tom Stares at Ruin	p. 75
Roxana Insists Upon Reform	p. 82
The Robber Robbed	p. 91
Sold Down the River	p. 99
The Judge Utters Dire Prophecy	p. 103
Roxana Commands	p. 105
The Prophecy Realized	p. 115
The Murderer Chuckles	p. 123
Doom	p. 131
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