TWAIN, Mark.
Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale.
New York: American Publishing Company , 1894.
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“FEW THINGS ARE HARDER TO PUT UP WITH THAN THE ANNOYANCE OF A GOOD EXAMPLE"; first edition of Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
First edition of Twain's classic tale of two mischievous twins. Octavo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Twain by James Mapes Dodge, illustrated. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
“A major part of Twain’s Mississippi writings. It resembles Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in being set before the Civil War in a small Missouri town modeled on Hannibal. However, it has a much more somber tone. While it contains humor, it deals frankly with small-town prejudice, slavery, miscegenation, lost birthright, degenerate aristocratic values and distorted parental love” (Rasmussen, 372). “Includes a series of brilliant epigrams, each the headpiece of a chapter, which are distillations of Twain’s wit and wisdom” (Benet, 795).
Pudd'nhead Wilson: A Tale.
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