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Pudd'nhead Wilson

Autor Mark Twain
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2010
Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called ¿Tom¿ who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835¿1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels ¿The Adventures of Tom Sawyer¿ (1876) and ¿The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn¿ (1884). Other notable works by this author include: ¿The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today¿ (1873) and ¿The Prince and the Pauper¿ (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
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ISBN-13: 9780451530745
ISBN-10: 0451530748
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 105 x 172 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House Group
Colecția Signet Classics
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Mark Twain, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River, a setting that inspired his two best-known novels,The Adventures of Tom SawyerandAdventures of Huckleberry Finn.In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at 12 when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, described by writer William Dean Howells as “the Lincoln of our literature.” Twain and his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, had four children—a son, Langdon, who died as an infant, and three daughters, Susy, Clara, and Jean.

Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) was an English novelist, critic, television dramatist, and professor of American studies and creative writing. Some of his most well-known books include The History Man, which won the Royal Society of Literature's W. H. Heinemann Prize and was adapted into a famous television series; andRates of Exchange, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Professor Bradbury was awarded the CBE in 1991 for his services to literature and was knighted in the 2000 New Year's Honours list.

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Determined that her baby son Tom shall not share her fate and remain in slavery, Roxy secretly exchanges him with his playmate Chambers, the son of her master. The two boys' lives in the quiet Missouri town of Dawson's Landing remain entwined even though they take very different directions.