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Twain presents the reader with a light-skinned black mother switching her infant with her white master's in order to prevent her own child being raised as a slave. Twain uses humor and irony in revealing seething levels of racism and classicism. First Edition; first state. Haycraft-Queen cornerstone; featuring the first fictional use of fingerprints. This novel successfully straddled two literary traditions.

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The recurrent in the 19th century and earlier theme of mistaken identity or mixed up birth i. Seller: Peter L. Published: Condition: First Edition; first state. Hartford: American Publishing Co, With delightful illustrations in the margins to nearly every page.

The Tragedy Of Pudd'nhead Wilson And The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc. Published: First Edition. A crime novel featuring the first fictional use of fingerprints. Published: Condition: First Edition. It was serialized in The Century Magazine —4 , before being published as a novel in The setting is the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century.

David Wilson, a young lawyer, moves to town and a clever remark of his is misunderstood, which causes locals to brand him a "pudd'nhead" —a nitwit. His hobby of collecting fingerprints does not raise his standing in the townsfolk's eyes, who see him as an eccentric and do not frequent his law practice. Pudd'nhead Wilson moves into the background as the focus shifts to the slave Roxy, her son, and the family they serve.

Roxy is principally charged with caring for her inattentive master's infant son Tom Driscoll, who is the same age as her own son.

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After fellow slaves are caught stealing and are nearly sold "down the river", to a master further south, Roxy fears for her life and the life of her son. First she decides to kill herself and Chambers to avoid being sold down the river, but then decides instead to switch Chambers and Tom in their cribs so that her son will live a life of privilege. The narrative moves forward two decades, and Tom Driscoll formerly Valet de Chambre , believing himself to be wholly white and raised as a spoiled aristocrat, has grown to be a selfish and dissolute young man.

Tom's father has died and granted Roxy her freedom.

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Phillips Oppenheim [D4N. Long [D4N. Johnson [D4N. Wells [D4N. Fletcher [II5. Meade [II5. Patalon [II5. Scott [II5. Fox [II5. Grifo [II5. Wirt [II5. Cheit [II5. Ryan [TTS. Holmberg [TTS. Dick [TTS. Tippey [TTS. Naiman [TTS. Elstad [TTS. Morgan [TTS. For Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins , Kemble provided six new full-page pictures to illustrate the Pudd'nhead Wilson chapters of the book. One of Kemble's illustrations titled "Buckstone Training with the Rum Party" was hand-colored and used as the frontispiece for the Riverdale Edition.

Kemble's previous style of depicting black people as unattractive caricatures was unchanged throughout Pudd'nhead Wilson. Kemble's image would be the one presented to the greatest number of American readers for years to come and one illustration in particular became the source of scholarly misidentification and misinterpretation.

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The edition of Pudd'nhead Wilson features two illustrations of Roxy, both in the company blacks. In American Publishing Company authorized the Underwood Edition which contained fewer illustrations. Only one illustration of Roxy was used and it was featured prominently as a frontispiece.

The decision to present the below illustration as the first one a reader would see was repeated by Harper and Brothers in subsequent uniform editions. It has been a source of misunderstanding for critics who were not adept at reading the picture and who never had an opportunity to see Kemble's other illustration of Roxy. Kemble's "Roxy Harvesting Among the Kitchens" was featured as the frontispiece of uniform editions after Her body is hidden behind the two black adults and only her face is shown.


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Some critics concluded the prominent black woman was Kemble's misinterpretation of Roxy. In the editions, "Roxy Harvesting Among the Kitchens" is placed preceding a passage in Chapter 10 about "racy tattle. When the illustration was moved to the frontispiece position, some readers may have concluded it represented a passage from Chapter Kemble's "Roxy Among the Field Hands" never appeared in uniform editions after Kemble did not draw the Roxy Mark Twain portrays.

He set down the accepted fictions, "the orthodox opinions," governing turn-of-the-century identification of inferior racial types. A stroke of Kemble's pen wipes out the verbal irony by which Mark Twain set up cross-currents among what Roxy looks like, her bottom-nature, and the racial tag placed upon her by society Banta, p.

One of the most cogent discussions of the Kemble misinterpretations is by Werner Sollors in his essay "Was Roxy Black? Sollors suggests that Kemble may have "hidden" Roxy in "Harvesting Among the Kitchens" as a conscious way of honoring Mark Twain's sentence "From Roxy's manner of speech, a stranger would have expected her to be black, but she was not" Brennan, p. As a result of publishing decisions to cut illustrations, a number of readers have been guilty of their own hasty stereotyping when glancing at the Kemble frontispiece. No evidence has been found that Mark Twain commented on the usage of "Roxy Harvesting Among the Kitchens" as a frontispiece for the Underwood or subsequent Harper editions.

The ensuing controversy the illustration caused is one that he would likely have enjoyed. Further discussion of Kemble's illustrations is available online at the University of Virginia website in an article titled " Illustrating Pudd'nhead. Frank M. Senior, Illustrator.

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Senior remains relatively unknown today with little historical evidence available to track his career. A search of the U. Censuses provides clues to his background. He was the son of a tinner named Thomas Senior, born in Scotland, and his wife Amanda, born in Connecticut. A death list in The New York Times published on April 17, listed him by name as dying on April 15 in Brooklyn without any additional details.

Senior contributed only one illustration for the uniform edition of Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins. The full-page drawing served as a frontispiece for the section of the book titled "Those Extraordinary Twins. Senior's revised illustration featured an actual photograph of Mark Twain in a white suit cut out and imposed over the original illustration to which Senior had extensive shading and detail.

As other editions were developed and prices were lowered, some of these illustrations were eliminated.