An edition of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1758)

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An edition of The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1758)

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (12 ratings)
  • 59 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 16 Have read

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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Dover Publications
Language
English
Pages
122

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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 Classics Advertising Impostors and imposture -- Fiction Missouri -- Fiction Trials (Murder) -- Fiction Legal stories Race relations -- Fiction Infants switched at birth -- Fiction Passing (Identity) -- Fiction

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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Missouri United States fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing

Times

1800-1850

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2023, Standard Ebooks
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2017, Digireads
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
2008-07-22, LibriVox
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
2008-01-04, LibriVox
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
2006-08-20, Project Gutenberg
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1999, Dover Publications
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1992, Oxford University Press
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The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, (A Harper perennial classic)
1966-01-01, Harper & Row
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1964, Signet Classics
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pudd'nhead wilson
1964, the new american library
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1955, Grove Press
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Pudd'nhead Wilson
1905, Chatto & Windus
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pudd'nhead wilson
1894, p. f. collier and son company
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Edition Notes

Originally published: 1894. With new introd.

Published in
Mineola, NY
Series
Dover thrift editions
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.4
Library of Congress
PS1317 .A1 1999, PS1317.A1 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 122 p. ;
Number of pages
122

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL38073M
ISBN 10
048640885X
LCCN
99025710
OCLC/WorldCat
41096185
LibraryThing
1797172
Goodreads
236952

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL54056W

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