The Tragedy Of Pudd'Nhead Wilson
Switched at birth!
Pudd'nhead Wilson's central intrigue revolves around two boys – one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy.
Three complex plot lines, with fascinating characters all come together in a murder trial with the classic reveal at the end that make this Twain classic the perfect crossover between literary and a newly developing genre.
Mark Twain's satire humorously and subtly takes apart small-town politics, religious beliefs to slavery and racism, while becoming an early detective story classic.
Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (30 November 1835 – 21 April 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humourist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humourist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel". Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894),