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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
First Published
2009
Subjects
Passing (Identity)
Race relations
Trials (Murder)
Impostors and imposture
Open Library Staff Picks
Slavery
Fiction
Infants switched at birth
Twins
Conjoined twins
Large type books
Missouri, fiction
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, historical
Fiction, legal
Slaves, fiction
Twins, fiction
American literature
Satire, american
Fiction, historical, general
Fiction, suspense
African americans, fiction
Lawyers
Literature and fiction, historical fiction
Enslaved persons, fiction
Crime, fiction
Fiction, general
Classics
Description
A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. *This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.*