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Pudd'nhead Wilson Enriched Classi Edition
Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author)
ISBN: 0743487788     ISBN-13: 9780743487788
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
OUR PRICE:   $5.36  
Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Published: November 2004
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Annotation: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED

BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:

- A concise introduction that gives readers important background information

- A chronology of the author's life and work

- A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context

- An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations

- Detailed explanatory notes

- Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work

- Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction

- A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON


Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Humorous - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2004276032
Lexile Measure: 1050
Series: Enriched Classics (Pocket)
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 4.34" W x 6.72" (0.27 lbs) 228 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - Missouri
- Topical - Family
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 12792
Reading Level: 8.3   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED
BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP

Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality.

EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
- A concise introduction that gives readers important background information
- A chronology of the author's life and work
- A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
- An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations
- Detailed explanatory notes
- Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
- Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
- A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience

Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON


Contributor Bio(s): Twain, Mark: - Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His humorous tales of human nature, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes. Twain was born and died in years in which Halley's Comet passed by Earth: 1835 and 1910.