Pudd'nhead Wilson: and Those Extraordinary Twins

Written as a sharp social commentary, Mark Twain’s scathing novel of mistaken identity and racial inequality remains strikingly relevant today—with an introduction by Langston Hughes.

At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson a young enslaved woman, fearing for her infant son’s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master’s. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining and funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd’nhead Wilson possesses all th...