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The best and most affecting story I've read from Twain so far. Starting out i thought it would just be a prince and the pauper story set in the pre civil war south, but twain creates something great for his story. Tom Driscoll is a weak iago and Chambers the poor othello. Twain's statements on the absurdities of racial ideologies of the time (as well as the practice of slavery as a whole) are witty and acid tongued. Twain speaks as part historian part misanthrope not apologizing for the time or
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Twain's biting commentary on slaves and the double standards by which whites lived during those times, was to me a discovery. This was not the Twain I think of after reading The Connecticut Yankee and other tales. This was a sort of detective tale and much more "serious" then I have been used to from Twain. There were flashes of wit, but in the main it was a serious tone throughout.
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Excellent, lesser known Twain book I found at a thrift store.
Sep 12, 2011
Allison boozy bookworm
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