Welcome to Memorable Monday! The purpose of Memorable Monday is to showcase an influential book read in the past that still sticks with you today. This fun Monday morning post is hosted by the lovely Becca at The Becca Files.
This week, I am featuring:
Pudd’nhead Wilson
by: Mark Twain
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I love Mark Twain. He is one of my favorite writers ever. I love his wit and intelligence and satire. Pudd’nhead Wilson is one of my favorite Twain novels, and I’m excited to begin teaching it to my AP Lit students today! This book packs a lot in a small amount of pages. If you have never read a Twain novel, I highly recommend reading this one.
About the Book
At the beginning of Pudd’nhead Wilson a young slave woman, fearing for her infant’s son’s life, exchanges her light-skinned child with her master’s. From this rather simple premise Mark Twain fashioned one of his most entertaining, funny, yet biting novels. On its surface, Pudd’nhead Wilson possesses all the elements of an engrossing nineteenth-century mystery: reversed identities, a horrible crime, an eccentric detective, a suspenseful courtroom drama, and a surprising, unusual solution. Yet it is not a mystery novel. Seething with the undercurrents of antebellum southern culture, the book is a savage indictment in which the real criminal is society, and racial prejudice and slavery are the crimes. Written in 1894, Pudd’nhead Wilson glistens with characteristic Twain humor, with suspense, and with pointed irony: a gem among the author’s later works.
NOW IT’S YOUR TURN!
Share a book you’ve read in the past and explain briefly why it’s so memorable to you in the comments below.
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I picked this up almost 10 years ago, purely because of the odd title, and loved it!
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It’s a good one!
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Watership Down by Richard Adams. It’s a story about a group of wild rabbits, of all things, but you will be hooked in no time! My husband and I still use lines from this book!
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My husband adores Watership Down. He talks about it all the time. I’ve yet to read it. But I probably should so I understand what he is alluding to.
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Such as going tharn? 😊
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Yes!
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I’m a Mark Twain fan too but haven’t read this one! Looks really intriguing though so adding it to my TBR!
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It’s such great satire!
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I was hoping my library would have the audio so I could listen to it at work but they don’t have it 😦 So I’ll have to wait a little longer to have the time to read a physical copy
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