Pudd’nhead Wilson /

Pudd’nhead Wilson / / Mark Twain.

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (190 p.) :; 7 line illustrations
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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

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