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
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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