Pudd'nhead Wilson (Record no. 15401)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01456nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 62005697 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781101873113 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 880756853 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS1317 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.4 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mark Twain |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Pudd'nhead Wilson |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 192 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Mark Twain's darkest novel--about a master and slave switched at birth--combines a courtroom drama with a provocative fable about race and identity. Twain's plot is set in motion when a slave named Roxy exchanges her light-skinned son Chambers with her master's baby, Tom. Roxy's child, now known as Tom, grows up as a spoiled, privileged white man, who is horrified when Roxy tells him the truth. He nearly gets away with a vicious crime, but his downfall comes in the form of a clever, eccentric lawyer, nicknamed "Puddn'head" Wilson. Twain's novel was the first to use fingerprinting to solve a crime, but its significance goes much further as an investigation into the nature of identity. When the two young men are forced to change places again, the former slave finds himself exiled to a white world where he will never feel at ease, while Roxy's child discovers that his newfound value as human property outweighs his guilt as a murderer. Despite its ironic humor and the symmetrical neatness of its denouement, Pudd'nhead Wilson is a tragedy that refuses easy answers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 11/29/2023 | PB TWAI | 68034 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |