Pudd Nhead Wilson And Other Tales

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191504549

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales by Mark Twain Pdf

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, the novel reveals the sinister forces that Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. In spite of a plot which includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial differences. This volume also includes two other late works `Those Extraordinary Twins' and `The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Conjoined twins
ISBN : UOM:39015010692963

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199554713

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales by Mark Twain Pdf

"Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain's last serious work of fiction, and perhaps his only real novel. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi writings, it reveals the sinister forces that, towards the end of his life, Mark Twain felt to be threatening the American dream. The central plot revolves around the tragedy of 'Roxy', a mulato slave whose attempt to save her son from his fate succeeds only in destroying him. In spite of a storyline that includes child swapping, palmistry, and a pair of Italian twins, this astringent work also raises the serious issue of racial difference."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Conjoined twins
ISBN : 0192837303

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Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Pdf

Hoping to ensure a better life for her child, a young slave woman exchanges her light-skinned baby for her master's.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103671249

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Pudd'nhead Wilson a tale by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0451517431

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Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : R. Kent Rasmussen
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 1159 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9781438108520

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Critical Companion to Mark Twain by R. Kent Rasmussen Pdf

Praise for the previous edition:RASD/ALA "Outstanding Reference Source, 1996""'Essential' is the word for it!

Author : Gavin Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107056671

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Failure and the American Writer by Gavin Jones Pdf

By exploring the aberrant literary styles of nineteenth-century American writers, Jones suggests failure is just as important as 'success' in US national experience.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1607103168

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Mark Twain by Mark Twain Pdf

No library's complete without the classics! This new, enhanced leather-bound edition collects some of the most popular works of legendary humorist and novelist Mark Twain. Mark Twain wrote his greatest works more than one hundred years ago, but he's never far from the minds of Americans. Whether it's the new, complete, and uncensored version of his autobiography hitting bestseller lists or the removal of certain controversial language from one of his novels, his name and his legacy remain a topic of conversation--and undoubtedly will for years to come. There's no better time to appreciate his stories, or read them for the very first time. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson are collected in this timeless and elegant book. Part of the Canterbury Classics series, Mark Twain features a beautiful cover, a ribbon bookmark, and other elements to enhance the reading experience, along with an introduction by a renowned Twain scholar that will enlighten new and familiar readers alike. This edition of Mark Twain is a treasure to enjoy forever--just like the writing of Twain himself!

Author : Susan Gillman,Forrest G. Robinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822381624

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Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson by Susan Gillman,Forrest G. Robinson Pdf

This collection seeks to place Pudd’nhead Wilson—a neglected, textually fragmented work of Mark Twain’s—in the context of contemporary critical approaches to literary studies. The editors’ introduction argues the virtues of using Pudd’nhead Wilson as a teaching text, a case study in many of the issues presently occupying literary criticism: issues of history and the uses of history, of canon formation, of textual problematics, and finally of race, class, and gender. In a variety of ways the essays build arguments out of, not in spite of, the anomalies, inconsistencies, and dead ends in the text itself. Such wrinkles and gaps, the authors find, are the symptoms of an inconclusive, even evasive, but culturally illuminating struggle to confront and resolve difficult questions bearing on race and sex. Such fresh, intellectually enriching perspectives on the novel arise directly from the broad-based interdisciplinary foundations provided by the participating scholars. Drawing on a wide variety of critical methodologies, the essays place the novel in ways that illuminate the world in which it was produced and that further promise to stimulate further study. Contributors. Michael Cowan, James M. Cox, Susan Gillman, Myra Jehlen, Wilson Carey McWilliams, George E. Marcus, Carolyn Porter, Forrest Robinson, Michael Rogin, John Carlos Rowe, John Schaar, Eric Sundquist

Author : Dr Christopher Pittard
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478829

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Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by Dr Christopher Pittard Pdf

Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.

Author : Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476648477

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Mark Twain and the Critics, 1891-1910 by Gary Scharnhorst,Leslie Diane Myrick Pdf

Over the last twenty years of his life, Mark Twain was a controversial figure. He evolved from the "clown prince of American literature" into a biting social critic and political observer. While some pundits hailed him as a satirist equal to Cervantes and Jonathan Swift, others excoriated him as a "degenerate literary freak" who wielded a "scurrilous and venomous pen." This volume traces the evolution of Mark Twain's public image between 1891 and his death in 1910. It features hundreds of reviews and other critical notices in magazines and newspapers across the U.S. and other English-speaking countries. The selected samples represent the full range of critical opinion, whether favorable or hostile, about his late writings. Sources reflect geographical differences in Twain's reputation, such as the conflicted responses in the British colonies towards his anti-imperialism and the pious disapproval in the American heartland of his attacks on foreign missions.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798713930516

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Those Extraordinary Twins Annotated by Mark Twain Pdf

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain.Its central intrigue revolves around two boys--one, born into slavery,the other,white,born to be the master of the house.The two boys,who look similar,are switched at infancy.Each grows into the other's social role.Originally part of the Pudd'nhead Wilson book, Twain realised during the writing process that the twins were taking a backseat to characters such as Pudd'nhead Wilson,Roxy,and Tom Driscoll.As a result,he took them out and gave them their own short story. He explains all this in the Introduction to this book.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112004992910

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Pudd'nhead Wilson and those extraordinary twins by Mark Twain Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433069268104

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Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston by Anonim Pdf