Querkopf Wilson by Mark Twain
"Querkopf Wilson" by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1894. Set in a Mississippi River town, the story begins when a slave named Roxy secretly switches her infant son with her master's baby to save him from a terrible fate. Years later, the boys grow into men shaped entirely by their assumed identities—one spoiled and corrupt, the other hardworking and decent. When murder strikes the town, an eccentric lawyer named David
Wilson uses a revolutionary new technique to solve the crime, exposing long-buried secrets that will shatter lives forever. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
|---|---|
| Uniform Title | Pudd'nhead Wilson. German |
| Title | Querkopf Wilson |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knallkopf_Wilson |
| Credits | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Impostors and imposture -- Fiction |
| Subject | Missouri -- Fiction |
| Subject | Trials (Murder) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Legal stories |
| Subject | Race relations -- Fiction |
| Subject | Infants switched at birth -- Fiction |
| Subject | Passing (Identity) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 65648 |
| Release Date | Jun 20, 2021 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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