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Pudd'nhead Wilson/Those Extraordinary Twins/The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

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Kiadó: Oxford University Press
Kiadás helye: Oxford
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Kötés típusa: Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám: 275 oldal
Sorozatcím: Oxford World's Classics
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Nyelv: Angol  
Méret: 20 cm x 13 cm
ISBN: 0-19-283730-3
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oxford world's classics
Mark Twain
pudd'nhead wilson
AND OTHER TALES Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R. D. Gooder
'If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.'
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 mulatto 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.
This volume includes two other late works by Mark Twain, 'Those Extraordinary Twins', and 'The Man that Corrupted... Tovább

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oxford world's classics
Mark Twain
pudd'nhead wilson
AND OTHER TALES Edited with an Introduction and Notes by R. D. Gooder
'If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.'
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 mulatto 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.
This volume includes two other late works by Mark Twain, 'Those Extraordinary Twins', and 'The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg'.
• INTRODUCTION • TEXTUAL NOTE • BIBLIOGRAPHY • CHRONOLOGY • EXPLANATORY NOTES Vissza

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