Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins

by Mark Twain

  5. Discuss Pudd’nhead’s relationship to his community and the townspeople: What are they like?

  FOR FURTHER READING

  Biographical Studies

  Emerson, Everett. Mark Twain: A Literary Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

  Geismar, Maxwell. Mark Twain: An American Prophet. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

  Gerber, John C. Mark Twain. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

  Hill, Hamlin. Mark Twain: God’s Fool. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.

  Hill, Hamlin. Mark Twain’s Letters to His Publishers, 1867-1894. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

  Hoffman, Andrew. Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. New York: William Morrow, 1997.

  Howells, William Dean. My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1910.

  Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.

  Lauber, John. The Making of Mark Twain: A Biography. New York: American Heritage Press, 1985.

  Messent, Peter B. Mark Twain. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

  Miller, Robert Keith. Mark Twain. New York: F. Ungar, 1983.

  Neider, Charles, ed. The Autobiography of Mark Twain. 1959. New York: HarperPerennial, 2000.

  Powers, Ron. Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

  Critical, Interpretative, and Scholarly Studies

  Budd, Louis J. Mark Twain, Social Philosopher. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962.

  Covici, Pascal, Jr. Mark Twain’s Humor: The Image of a World. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1962.

  Cox, James M. Mark Twain: The Fate of Humor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

  DeVoto, Bernard. Mark Twain’s America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932. Reprinted in Mark Twain’s America, and Mark Twain at Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.

  Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, ed. A Historical Guide to Mark Twain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

  . Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Foner, Philip S. Mark Twain: Social Critic. New York: International Publishers, 1958.

  Gibson, William M. The Art of Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.

  Harris, Susan K. Mark Twain’s Escape from Time: A Study of Patterns and Images. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1982.

  Hughes, Langston. “Introduction.” Pudd’nhead Wilson. New York: Bantam Books, 1959.

  Lynn, Kenneth. Mark Twain and Southwestern Humor. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.

  Michelson, Bruce. Mark Twain on the Loose: A Comic Writer and the American Self. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

  Robinson, Forrest, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  Scott, Arthur L., ed. Mark Twain: Selected Criticism. Revised edition. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1967.

  Sloane, David E. E., ed. Mark Twain’s Humor: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishers, 1993.

  Smith, Henry Nash. Mark Twain: The Development of a Writer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1962; Atheneum, 1967.

  Stone, Albert E., Jr. The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain’s Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961.

  Sundquist, Eric J., ed. Mark Twain: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.

  Wonham, Henry B. Mark Twain and the Art of the Tall Tale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

  Other Books of Interest

  Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1966.

  Fredrickson, George M. The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914. 1971. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

  Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

  Rourke, Constance. American Humor: A Study of the National Character. 1931. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.

  Sundquist, Eric J. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.