# The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

By Mark Twain.

"The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" by Mark Twain is a novel published in 1894. Set in a Mississippi River town, it tells the story of two infants—one born into slavery with 1/32 black ancestry, the other white and free—who are secretly switched in their cradles. Each boy grows into the other's social role, setting the stage for a murder mystery that exposes the arbitrary nature of racial categories and the moral corruption beneath small-town respectability. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Impostors and imposture -- Fiction; Missouri -- Fiction; Trials (Murder) -- Fiction; Legal stories; Race relations -- Fiction; Infants switched at birth -- Fiction; Passing (Identity) -- Fiction

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1128) by Mark Twain (7 h 7 min, English)
- [Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/2136) by Mark Twain (5 h 24 min, English)

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