{"product_id":"pudd-nhead-wilson-9780553211580","title":"Pudd'nhead Wilson","description":"\u003cb\u003eWritten as a sharp social commentary, Mark Twain’s scathing novel of mistaken identity and racial inequality remains strikingly relevant today—with an introduction by Langston Hughes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the beginning of \u003ci\u003ePudd’nhead Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e a young enslaved woman, fearing for her infant son’s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master’s. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining and funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, \u003ci\u003ePudd’nhead Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in 1894, \u003ci\u003ePudd’nhead Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author’s later works.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62224390619523,"sku":"9780553211580","price":5.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780553211580.jpg?v=1785319898","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/pudd-nhead-wilson-9780553211580","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}