Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson begins with a young slave woman taking her light-skinned child -- fearing for his life -- and exchanging him with her master's child. Like much of Twain, the tale becomes an indictment of racial prejudice in the antebellum south, full of Twain's gentle yet sharp-elbowed humor.

Huck tells of his adventures traveling down the Mississippi River on a raft with an escaped slave.

"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...

In 1830, a young slave girl switches her light-skinned infant son with her master's but when a murder occurs, Pudd'nhead Wilson compares fingerprints and brings the murderer and deception to light.

A man who loves to place bets acquires a remarkable frog, which he claims can outjump any other frog in the county.

"The mysterious stranger, a ghost story & ten more great tales!" -- Cover.

Collects five of Mark Twain's most popular novels, including "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."

Follows the adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century.