Mark Twain, PUDD’NHEAD WILSON ; Originally published in 1893-1894 by Century Magazine in
seven installments.
Mark Twain’s PUDD’NHEAD WILSON was published
in the United States in 1894 as THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD’NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY
OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS. The story
narrates events before the Civil War surrounding a slave who is 1/16th
negro. It mostly takes place in Dawson’s
Landing, a village nestled between St. Louis and the mighty Mississippi. A fair-skinned slave nanny, Roxy (owned by
Judge Driscoll’s brother), switches at birth Judge Driscoll’s nephew, Tom, with
her own enslaved boy, Chambers. This all culminates in the murder of Judge
Driscoll and search for suspects involving foreigners, Angelo and Luigi
Capello, as the main suspects.
I was brought up in a small town and
can very well appreciate how a nickname such as Pudd’Nhead can be affixed to
someone by one of the town clowns.
Anyone who is different is a candidate, Lawyer Wilson is judged different
when arriving in town and becomes the object of such a prank, it ruins his chances of becoming a
respectable town lawyer. However,
Pudd’Nhead is a main character in solving this murder.
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