The unsolved riddle at the heart of Pudd'nhead Wilson is less the identity of the murderer than the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. In his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel.
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ISBN:0674059832
ISBN:9780674059832
ISBN:9780674967540
ISBN:0674967542
ISBN:0674736338
ISBN:9780674736337
Physical Description:1 online resource remote
Publisher:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
VIII. Baptism of the Better HalfIX. The Drinkless Drunk -- X. So They Hanged Luigi -- Final Remarks -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments