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Pudd'nhead Wilson : The Authoritative Edition, with Those Extraordinary Twins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark.
- Series:
- The Works of Mark Twain Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Pudd'nhead Wilson--History and criticism.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Those extraordinary twins--History and criticism.
- Infants switched at birth--Fiction.
- Infants switched at birth.
- Passing (Identity)--Fiction.
- Passing (Identity).
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Trials (Murder)--Fiction.
- Trials (Murder).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (868 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This critical edition publishes--for the first time anywhere--the original manuscript and revised versions of Pudd'nhead Wilson. Mark Twain's story of the antebellum South, first published in 1894, continues to prompt conversations about race and the dire legacy of American slavery. At its heart is Roxy, a mixed-race woman enslaved to a wealthy Missouri family. To save her infant son (whose father was white) from being "sold down the river," Roxy switches him in the cradle with her master's son, setting in motion a train of ironic and bitter events. With its mixture of farce, social commentary, tragedy, and satire, Pudd'nhead Wilson has come to be one of Mark Twain's most-read and most-studied works. But few have read the original Pudd'nhead Wilson. The text familiar since 1894, as editor Benjamin Griffin shows, was heavily edited and censored--first by the author himself under pressure from family and friends, then by his publishers. Now the Mark Twain Project makes available the full text of the Morgan Library manuscript (the original version), together with a critical text of the revised version, stripped of the changes imposed by Mark Twain's editors and publishers--two fascinating ways to encounter this troubled and troubling novel.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the Texts in This Volume
- Abbreviations Used in this Volume
- Offensive Language in Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Acknowledgments
- Pudd'nHead Wilson: A Tale. The Morgan Manuscript Version
- Addenda to the Morgan Manuscript
- Pudd'nHead Wilson: a Tale. The Revised Version
- Those Extraordinary Twins: A Postscript to Pudd'nHead Wilson
- Explanatory Notes
- The Morgan Manuscript Version
- ]The Revised Version
- "Those Extraordinary Twins
- Appendixes
- Appendixes A. MS Berg: Contents and Numbering
- B. MS Morgan: Contents and Numbering
- C. Mark Twain's Working Notes
- D. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894
- E. Contract with the American Publishing Company
- F. American Publishing Company Advertising Flyer
- G. Illustrating Pudd'nhead Wilson
- H. ["The Man with Negro Blood"]
- Introduction
- Textual Apparatus
- Textual Apparatus Note on the Texts
- Guide to the Textual Apparatus
- Description of Source Documents
- Emendations and Historical Collations: The Morgan Manuscript Version
- The Revised Version
- Word Division in This Volume
- References.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520398115
- 0520398114
- OCLC:
- 1427067098
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