Pudd’nhead Wilson / / Mark Twain.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Twain, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Sollors, Werner,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library ; 145
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (190 p.) :; 7 line illustrations

When a murder takes place in Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd “black” son who has been raised “white,” and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd’nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than it is the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Twain’s novel. This edition follows the text of the 1899 De Luxe edition and for the first time reprints all the E. W. Kemble illustrations that accompanied it. Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Mark Twain’s Life -- PUDD’NHEAD WILSON -- A Whisper to the Reader -- CHAPTER I. Pudd’nhead Wins His Name -- CHAPTER II. Driscoll Spares His Slaves -- CHAPTER III. Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick -- CHAPTER IV. The Ways of the Changelings -- CHAPTER V. The Twins Thrill Dawson’s Landing -- CHAPTER VI. Swimming in Glory -- CHAPTER VII. The Unknown Nymph -- CHAPTER VIII. Marse Tom Tramples His Chance -- CHAPTER IX. Tom Practises Sycophancy -- CHAPTER X. The Nymph Revealed -- CHAPTER XI. Pudd’nhead’s Startling Discovery -- CHAPTER XII. The Shame of Judge Driscoll -- CHAPTER XIII. Tom Stares at Ruin -- CHAPTER XIV. Roxana Insists Upon Reform -- CHAPTER XV. The Robber Robbed -- CHAPTER XVI. Sold Down the River -- CHAPTER XVII. The Judge Utters Dire Prophecy -- CHAPTER XVIII. Roxana Commands -- CHAPTER XIX. The Prophecy Realized -- CHAPTER XX. The Murderer Chuckles -- CHAPTER XXI. Doom -- Conclusion -- THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. The Twins as They Really Were -- CHAPTER II. Ma Cooper Gets All Mixed Up -- CHAPTER III. Angelo Is Blue -- CHAPTER IV. Supernatural Chronometry -- CHAPTER V. Guilt and Innocence Finely Blent -- CHAPTER VI. The Amazing Duel -- CHAPTER VII. Luigi Defies Galen -- CHAPTER VIII. Baptism of the Better Half -- CHAPTER IX. The Drinkless Drunk -- CHAPTER X. So They Hanged Luigi -- Final Remarks -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments