- Passing (Identity), Race relations, Trials (Murder), Impostors and imposture
A young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, switches her light-skinned infant with the master's white son. *This novel features a literary first — the use of fingerprinting to solve a crime.*
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- Author
- Mark Twain
- First published
- 1758
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Grupo Editorial Norma, Bantam Books(Classic & Loveswept), Grosset & Dunlap
- Editions
- 250
- Language
- und, Spanish, nor, dan
- ISBN
- 9781860154287
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“The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.”
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was a prolific American author and humorist. Twain is best known for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He is extensively quoted. Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
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