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Puddnhead Wilson and Other Tales : Those Extraordinary Twins, the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Oxford World's Classics)

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As entertaining as any of Mark Twain's works. Fun for all ages. Great stroy and lessons in life as well as Twain's great gift for humor, subtle and obvious. Totally entertaining with enough drama to keep your interest. Great for entertainment, education or teaching.

If you buy this book, dive straight into the Twain works themselves and completely skip the introduction which contains such inane and unintelligible howlers as "Mark Twain has proved to be a one book author" and "every reader of Huckleberry Finn feels that the end of the novel is artistically mismanaged" and "Mark Twain's difficulties in writing the fully articulated novel consonant with the mood into which his mature experience had precipitated him are most evident in the construction of his eponymous hero."

I have no idea who R.D. Gooder is, but all I can say is that I am glad I did not have any literature professors like him. Stick with the unadulterated versions of Twain such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Cambridge World Classics) Special Kindle Enabled Features (Mark Twain Collection) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cambridge World Classics Edition) Special Kindle Enabled Features (Mark Twain Collection)

I repeatedly purchase this book and hand it out to both my African-American friends/co-workers/associates and others that obtain history from our government's school system (read faulted). Mark Twain gives an incredible window into what one aspect of slavery was really like; the blond, blue eyed slave (only 1/64th "black" was still a slave) wet-nursing the master's child along with her own (that becomes evident is also the "master's" child) and the window of time revealed during this period.
I enjoy sharing this book in the same manner as having people read the emancipation proclamation and having them discover that Lincoln didn't "free" the slaves, only those in the Southern States and only those counties still in rebellion (Lincoln also was attempting to develop a plan to have all Blacks shipped out of the United States after war, won't find that in any government approved history book).
Great narrative, great detective novel, great candid look at that era.