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Description
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... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear ...”
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“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”
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“All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die'--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.”
First Sentence
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
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Authors & Contributors
- Mark Twain (Author)
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