The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudd%27nhead_Wilson Release date is 2004-09-14
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"The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1894. Set in a Mississippi River town, it tells the story of two infants—one born into slavery with 1/32 black ancestry, the other white and free—who are secretly switched in their cradles. Each boy grows into the other's social role, setting the stage for a murder mystery that exposes the arbitrary nature of racial categories and the moral corruption beneath small-town respectability. (This is an automatically generated summary.)