Pudd'nhead Wilson

a tale

214 pages

English language

Published Jan. 7, 1955 by Grove Press.

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A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.

66 editions

Subjects

  • Infants switched at birth -- Fiction
  • Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
  • Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
  • Race relations -- Fiction