Бумажные издания
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Марк Твен
ISBN: 978-5-517-00217-4 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Т8 Язык: Английский Mark Twain was an American writer, journalist, and publisher. Among his most famous novels are "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and its sequel, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers. "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a novel about two boys from the fictional Missouri town of Dawson's Landing. One, born into slavery, with a small amount of black ancestry. The other is white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys were switched after birth, so each would grow into the other's social role and accept many of the boundaries and stigmas of the society.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781101873113 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Vintage Books Язык: Английский Mark Twain’s darkest novel—about a master and slave switched at birth—combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity. Twain’s plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master’s baby, Tom. Roxy’s child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed “Puddn’head” Wilson. Twain’s novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as…
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Pudd’nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780674059832 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Belknap Press Язык: Английский When a murder takes place in Dawson’s Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1/32nd “black” son who has been raised “white,” and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd’nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than it is the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain’s novel. This edition follows the text of the 1899 De Luxe edition and for the…
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Марк Твен
ISBN: 0451530748, 9780451530745 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Signet Classics Язык: Английский At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's 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, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson 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…
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The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 1420925342, 9781420925340 Год издания: 2005 Издательство: Digireads.com Язык: Английский "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" begins with the act of a young slave girl exchanging her light-skinned child, fearing for its safety, for that of her master's. From this reversal of identities evolves a suspenseful murder mystery and courtroom drama. "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" is everything one would expect from a novel by Mark Twain. On the surface it is a witty and satirical tale but as one digs deeper a biting social commentary of racial inequality can be found.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 0743487788, 9780743487788 Год издания: 2004 Издательство: Simon Schuster Язык: Английский Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality.
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The Tragedy of Pudd'Nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 1414206917, 9781414206912 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: IndyPublish.com Язык: Английский At the beginning of Pudd'nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant's 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, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd'nhead Wilson 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…
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Pudd’Nhead Wilson Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780553211580 Год издания: 1984 Издательство: Bantam Books Язык: Английский At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant’s 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, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd’nhead Wilson 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…
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Произведения
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Простофиля Вильсон Марк Твен
Форма: повесть Оригинальное название: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Первая публикация: 1894 Перевод: В. И. Лимановская Язык: Русский «Простофиля Вильсон» — значительное произведение, в котором с большой силой и выразительностью показано разлагающее воздействие рабства на жизнь в США, развернута яркая картина быта затхлого провинциального городка — Пристани Доусона — и созданы яркие, запоминающиеся образы, особенно Вильсона и «белой» негритянки Роксаны.
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Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
Форма: повесть Оригинальное название: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Первая публикация: 1893–1894 Язык: Английский -
Аудиокниги
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The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson Марк Твен
ISBN: 9781483081724 Год издания: 2006 Издательство: Alcazar AudioWorks Язык: Английский David Wilson has earned the unfortunate nickname “Pudd’nhead” from his fellow townspeople, who fail to understand his combination of wisdom and eccentricity. However, he is eventually able to redeem himself by simultaneously solving a murder mystery and a case of transposed identities. Two children, a white boy and a mulatto, are born on the same day. Roxy, mother of the mulatto and a slave, is given charge of the children; in fear that her son will be sold, she switches the babies. The mulatto, though he grows up as a white boy, turns out to be a scoundrel. He sells his mother and murders and robs his uncle. He accuses Luigi, one of…