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    Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale by Mark Twain
    Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale by Mark Twain
    Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale by Mark Twain
    Audiobook5 hours

    Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale by Mark Twain

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Richard Henzel

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    About this audiobook

    Pudd'nhead Wilson is the tale of a beautiful and intelligent slave woman who contrives to save her own light-skinned child from being "sold down the river."

    She switches her baby with the master's child, that leads in time to heartbreak and tragedy. This recording is a recreation of Mark Twain's own reading, just as his family might have heard the story for the first time in the family library.

    (P)2003 Richard Henzel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBig Happy Family
    Release dateSep 9, 2003
    ISBN9780984671533
    Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale by Mark Twain
    Author

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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