{"product_id":"puddnhead-wilson-9780674059832","title":"Pudd'nhead Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen a murder takes place in Dawson's Landing, Missouri, the lives of twin Italian noblemen, the courageous slave Roxy, her 1\/32nd \"black\" son who has been raised \"white,\" and a failing lawyer with an intense interest in the science of fingerprinting become tangled. The unsolved riddle at the heart of \u003ci\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e is less the identity of the murderer than it is the question of whether nature or nurture makes the man. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his introduction, Werner Sollors illuminates the complex web of uncertainty that is the switched-and-doubled-identity world of Mark Twain's novel. This edition follows the text of the 1899 De Luxe edition and for the first time reprints all the E. W. Kemble illustrations that accompanied it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSollors, Werner:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.","brand":"Belknap Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51200853934354,"sku":"9780674059832","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe8faa0e-9b45-499d-b6fc-31409ab865b2.jpg?v=1748527961","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/puddnhead-wilson-9780674059832","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}