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Title: Puddnhead Wilson

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Peter Joyce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-11

Publisher: Assembled Stories

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Classics, American Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Puddnhead Wilson is Mark Twains novel of satirical wit aimed at the injustices in the southern states of America in the mid-19th century. It tells the story of two children, one born free, the other a slave. When the slaves mother, Roxana, switches the infants in their cradles she is not the only one who lives to regret the action. The tale has many facets to it. It is a murder mystery, a social commentary on the manners and beliefs of the time and a detective novel.

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Members Reviews:

Tragi-Dramati-Comedy.

I'm not a Twain aficionado, but in the interest of better knowing my Southern literary 'roots', I've been trying to read some of his less popular works. The Mysterious Stranger was better, in my opinion. However, this was quite the interesting look into the lives of small town residents, slaves and slave owners, with the intrigue of a murder mystery. There was some humor. Mostly it was the drama of their lives, the suspense of a good whodunnit, and the tragic end of...well, I'll leave you to find that out. Twain built the intensity of the narrative well and I found myself reading faster and faster the closer I got to the end. Recommended.

If someone calls you a "Puddin'Head? Just Smile and Carry on.

I'm not going to be pretentious and say that I like all of Twain's work - I don't -- he wouldn't like it if I did. However, this story reflects the social perception of the south itself and he has successfully managed to balance social irony with down-home southern fact. Not one of Twain's "moral sketches," but definitely a "poke" as established community mores. This story balances racial truth with communal "youth": to devise a funny, picturesque view of American society in terms of its treatment of the African American and what "drop of blood" establishes racial kinship. Nothing new that I can offer here: P.W.'s calendar entries are fun, real, and tongue-in-cheek humorous. Mark Twain's characters run the gambit of human emotion (look out for Tom's real Mamma - she's tough as nails) and the whole story is, almost Faulkner style, but bred with the wit that belongs only to Mark Twain. If this is the only Twain you read, you are on your way to laughing at yourself, culture, and the world in general -- but in a purely civilized manner as only Twain can do. - E.T.

Switched at birth

155. The Tragedy of Puddânhead Wilson by Mark Twain. In Missouri during slavery, babies are switched by Roxy, the mother of one of them, who is a slave ( but looks white) and grows up as a white quasi wealthy but selfish evil person who eventually kills his uncle for the inheritance. Puddânhead, is a lawyer who is not respected but through his hobby of collecting fingerprints figures out who murdered the uncle and that the man is really a slave. Written in Twain humor but I found it difficult to read the slave jargon.

What would Mark Twain say about Trump and those who voted for him?

This is a mess of a novel, as Twain admits and explores in his afterward.