小說/散文

Pudd'nhead Wilson
出版社： Signet
書林書號：
20109929
作者：
Twain, Mark
定價：
175
會員價：
$149
ISBN：
9780451530745
出版年份：
2007
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
本書以奴隸制度現存的社會問題為背景，向讀者展開一連串精彩的情節轉折，以及結局的反轉。奴隸羅克西主要的職責是照顧主人的小兒子湯姆，而他也有一個同齡的兒子錢伯斯。在宅邸中其他奴隸因為被抓到偷竊而差點被賣到南方後，羅克西非常擔憂自己與兒子的處境，掙扎之下，他做了一個大膽的決定——他將主人與自己的兒子從嬰兒床上對調，企望兒子能從此過上優越與特權的生活......

Mark Twain takes a hard look at the consequences of slavery in America in this classic satire. 

Set in a town on the Mississippi during the pre-Civil War era, Pudd’nhead Wilson tackles the seminal American issue of slavery in a tragicomedy of switched identities. What happens when a child born free and a child born a slave change places?  The result is a biting social commentary with enduring relevance, and a good old-fashioned murder mystery. It also introduces one of Twain’s favorite characters: Pudd’nhead Wilson, an intellectual with a penchant for amateur sleuthing. F.R. Leavis proclaimed this novel “the masterly work of a great writer.”

With an Introduction by Louis Budd
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