Mark Twain

Those Extraordinary Twins Annotated Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys-one, born into slavery, the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role. Originally part of the Pudd'nhead Wilson book, Twain realised during the writing process that the twins were taking a backseat to characters such as Pudd'nhead Wilson, Roxy, and Tom Driscoll. As a result, he took them out and gave them their own short story. He explains all this in the Introduction to th