{"product_id":"the-tragedy-of-puddnhead-wilson","title":"La tragedia di Pudd’nhead Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if a town’s certainty about blood and birth rests on nothing more than a cradle swap?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Dawson’s Landing, a slave-holding town on the Mississippi, family names carry weight and custom decides a child’s future. Roxana, called Roxy, takes a desperate step to save her son from slavery: she swaps two babies. Her son grows up as Tom Driscoll, the wealthy heir, while Chambers grows up enslaved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, David Wilson, a young lawyer from New York, earns the town’s mockery and quietly collects fingerprints. Tom grows vain, reckless, and burdened by gambling debts. In The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Mark Twain brings sharp humor to a darker question: how much of a person’s fate comes from the life others assign them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA mother’s dangerous choice\u003c\/strong\u003e – Roxy’s fierce love drives a cradle swap that places two children on unequal paths.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe fool worth watching\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet David Wilson, whose fingerprint collection contrasts with the town’s confidence in family names.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrivilege with a bitter edge\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Tom as the comforts of an heir’s life give way to reckless debts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCustom under sharp scrutiny\u003c\/strong\u003e – See Twain challenge the claim that race fixes a person’s nature or worth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLaughter that leaves a sting\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enjoy a wry voice whose mock praise makes the town’s proud manners look troubling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy satire with a sting, American history through fiction, and cunning plots, and can face hard scenes about slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and enter a town whose firmest beliefs Twain puts to the test.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534592278876,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/01389_en_ebook-front_c24.jpg?v=1792174932","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/it\/products\/la-tragedia-di-puddnhead-wilson","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}