Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain

⏱ 8 minAmerican classic

A slave mother secretly swaps her light-skinned infant for her master's white son in the cradle, so the slave grows up the pampered heir and the true heir grows up a slave, until a small-town lawyer's fingerprint hobby unravels a murder and the switched identities together. Twain's dark tragedy of slavery and identity.

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