Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race
Title | Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | American wit and humor |
ISBN | 9781566195263 |
A collection of essays written by Samuel Clements (as Mark Twain.).
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Title | Pudd'nhead Wilson PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2015-02-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101873116 |
Mark Twain’s darkest novel—about a master and slave switched at birth—combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity. Twain’s plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master’s baby, Tom. Roxy’s child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed “Puddn’head” Wilson. Twain’s novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity. When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy’s child discovers that his newfound value as human property outweighs his guilt as a murderer. Despite its ironic humor and the symmetrical neatness of its denouement, Pudd’nhead Wilson is a tragedy that refuses easy answers.
Mark Twain on the damned human race
Title | Mark Twain on the damned human race PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | Hill & Wang |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 1979 |
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ISBN | 9780809000548 |
Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race
Title | Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
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Pages | 259 |
Release | 1967 |
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Mark Twain and the "damned Human Race".
Title | Mark Twain and the "damned Human Race". PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) |
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Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race
Title | Mark Twain on the Damned Human Race PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 1962 |
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living
Title | Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Twain |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2004-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0520931343 |
Irreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain's private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars. Culled from Twain's personal letters, autobiographical writings, speeches, novels, and sketches, these pieces are delightfully fresh, witty, startlingly relevant, and bursting with Twain's characteristic ebullience for life. They also remind us exactly how Mark Twain came to be the most distinctive and well-known American literary voice in the world. These texts, some of them new or out of print for decades, have been selected and meticulously prepared by the editors at the Mark Twain Project.