Those extraordinary twins

ISBN-13: 9781540848611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 100 str.

Twain Mark; G-Ph Ballin

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Summary In a small city on the banks of the Mississippi comes a young lawyer from New York, David Wilson, soon nicknamed the pudd'nhead for wanting to kill half a dog not belonging to him Moreover his favorite pastime is to collect the fingerprints of the passers-by. His fame is made ... At the same time, Roxana, a young Metis slave (one-sixteenth of black blood) raised and fed two blondinet boys, his and his master, Percy Driscoll, brother of the county court judge. To avoid the sale of her son in a plantation, she substitutes the two infants. The fake Tom should make a great career ... Twenty years later, two young Italian nobles, twins, arrived in the same town. Tom the impostor plundered, plays and sells his own mother in a plantation. He eventually murdered his uncle and guardian. But Wilson with his fingerprints puts everyone in his place ... And the twins? This is an other story... -The reader knows from the beginning the author of the murder and how the crime will be solved. The circumstances of the denouement, however, were at that time a great novelty, taking fingerprints was not then commonplace for the detection of crimes in the United States. Even a man for whom it was a hobby was treated as a nigaud, a 'pudd'nhead'. (Introduction by Langston Hughes to the novel) The story also describes Missouri's pre-Civil War racism, even vis-a-vis the seemingly white people with a trace of black blood and the acceptance of this state of affairs by everyone, The black population.