Puddn'head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

PUDD'NHEAD WILSON is a novel, a mystery and a satire. Written as a chronicle, it describes events occurring over 25 years in Dawson's Landing, Missouri.

A slave woman's child is swapped for a judge's son. Take Southern prejudice, a switch in identities, a bizarre murder and the exuberant characters of Twain's youth, mix them with his mature wit and social sensibilities, and you have a first-rate yarn.