The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (1894) Tapa dura - 1996

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Oxford / New York: Oxford Univ Press. Introduction by Sherley Anne Williams. Afterword by David Lionel Smith. A facsimile of the 1894 edition. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1996.

Oxford University Press, December 1996. First Thus. Hardcover. Collectible Very Good/Like New. 1st Edition THUS / 1st Printing - CLEAN!! No marks. Touch of foxing on page edge. Appears unread. . . . . . . Widely acknowledged as the greatest of his later works, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, is Twain's most searingly ironic vision of race in America. Set in a town not unlike the Hannibal of Twain's youth, the book began life as a slapstick comedy about Siamese twins. But it changed from a farce to a tragedy, Twain tells us, in the course of his writing, and the result was one of the most profound meditations on race and identity an American writer has produced. The voice that dominates this tale is that of Roxana, a light-skinned slave desperate to keep her child from being sold down the river, who switches him in the cradle with the child of her master. Roxana, Twain's most complex and fully-realized adult female character, is a compelling tragic heroine; the plot she sets in motion is daring,… Leer más