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ABOUT THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINSFeaturing the brilliantly drawn Roxanna a mulatto slave who suffers dire consequences after switching her infant son with her master's baby and the clever Pudd'nhead Wilson an ostracized small-town lawyer Twain's darkly comic masterpiece is a provocative exploration of slavery and miscegenation. Leslie A. Fiedler described the novel as half melodramatic detective story half bleak tragedy noting that morally it is one of the most honest books in our literature. Those Extraordinary Twins the slapstick story that evolved into Pudd'nhead Wilson provides a fascinating view of the author's process.The text for this paperback Classic was set from the 1894 first American edition.