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Nelson Doubleday
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[19--]
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English
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The American claimant: Lighthearted farce featuring an American charmed by the British aristocracy and a British earl equally intrigued by his conception of the nature of America's democratic society.
Pudd'nhead Wilson: Twain's classic story of exchanged identities, slavery, and tragedy, embodied in the son of Roxana, a slave nurse, who switches her baby with that of her white master's at birth.
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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