The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

By

star4.5 from 164 ratings

Description

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave. Twain uses this vehicle to explore themes of nature vs nurture, racial bigotry and moral relativism.

More Mark Twain Books

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • The Prince and the Pauper

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Mark Twain

    Historical Fiction for Young Adults

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    Chapter Books for Kids

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 1.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • A Dog's Tale

    A Dog's Tale

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • Life on the Mississippi

    Life on the Mississippi

    Mark Twain

    Travel Essays & Memoirs

  • Roughing It

    Roughing It

    Mark Twain

    Travel Essays & Memoirs

  • The adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Innocents Abroad

    The Innocents Abroad

    Mark Twain

    Travel in Europe

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • A Horse's Tale

    A Horse's Tale

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

    How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Mysterious Stranger

    The Mysterious Stranger

    Mark Twain

    Horror

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

    Mark Twain

    Fantasy

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 [newly updated] (Book House Publishing)

    50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2 [newly updated] (Book House Publishing)

    Upton Sinclair, W. Somerset Maugham, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, H. G. Wellls, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft, Rabindranath Tagore, Herman Melville, Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, D. H. Lawrence, Bram Stoker, Sir Walter Scott & Jack London

    Fiction & Literature

  • On the Decay of the Art of Lying

    On the Decay of the Art of Lying

    Mark Twain

    Literary Fiction

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 2.

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure Fiction for Young Adults

  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

    50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

    Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy & Bram Stoker

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Complete Works of Mark Twain (With commentary, Mark Twain Biography, and Plot Summaries)

    The Complete Works of Mark Twain (With commentary, Mark Twain Biography, and Plot Summaries)

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • What Is Man? and Other Essays

    What Is Man? and Other Essays

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

    100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature [volume 2]

    James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, Herman Melville, EDGAR ALLAN POE, Bram Stoker, Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Stendhal, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack London, Mary Shelley, George Sand, William Somerset Maugham, Walter Scott, Upton Sinclair, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift & Rebecca West

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 5.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain

    Quotes and Images From The Works of Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 6.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 7.

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • Mark Twain's Speeches

    Mark Twain's Speeches

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

    The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes

    Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Charles W. Eliot, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjornstjerne Bjornson & Alexander L. Kielland

    Literary Criticism

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • Mystery Stories

    Mystery Stories

    Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, A. A. Milne, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jack London & John Buchan

    Mystery Short Stories

  • A Tramp Abroad

    A Tramp Abroad

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

    The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • Eve's Diary

    Eve's Diary

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Complete Harvard Classics - 71 Volumes

    The Complete Harvard Classics - 71 Volumes

    Charles W. Eliot, Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, William Penn, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Pare, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, William Shakespeare, Thomas Dekker, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Gottfried Keller, Guy de Maupassant, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson & Alexander L. Kielland

    Fiction & Literature

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8.

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 8.

    Mark Twain

    Action & Adventure

  • Roughing it

    Roughing it

    Mark Twain

    Fiction & Literature

  • Following the Equator

    Following the Equator

    Mark Twain

    Literary Criticism

  • Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain

    Classics

  • 100 Greatest Books

    100 Greatest Books

    Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, L.M. Montgomery, A. A. Milne, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anna Sewell, Miguel de Cervantes, Herman Melville, L. Frank Baum, Jack London, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, H.G. Wells, Franz Kafka, The Brothers Grimm, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, John Steinbeck, Emily Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse & Niccolò Machiavelli

    Fiction & Literature