The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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About the book
A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.
Subjects
- advertising
- african americans, fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- classics
- conjoined twins
- crime, fiction
- enslaved persons, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, legal
- fiction, suspense
- impostors and imposture
- impostors and imposture -- fiction
- infants switched at birth
- infants switched at birth -- fiction
- large type books
- lawyers
- legal stories
- literature and fiction, historical fiction
- missouri -- fiction
- missouri, fiction
- open library staff picks
- passing (identity)
- passing (identity) -- fiction
- race relations
- race relations -- fiction
- satire, american
- slavery
- slaves, fiction
- trials (murder)
- trials (murder) -- fiction
- twins
- twins, fiction