![]() He also discovered that these secondary characters, along with Wilson, were becoming more central to the story than originally imagined. ![]() However, Twain realized that the serious narrative of Roxy, Tom, and Chambers clashed with the light farce of the twins. This novel grew out of Twain’s original plan to write a novel titled Those Extraordinary Twins, which would’ve focused on the Italian twins Luigi and Angelo Capello, who were originally imagined as conjoined twins. Because of Twain’s refusal to represent any absolute morality in Pudd’nhead, Leslie Fielder describes the novel as “morally… one of the most honest books in our literature, superior in this one respect to Huckleberry Finn.” ![]() ![]() It was written during “Mark Twain’s later, darker period… the unhappiest decade of his life” during which he lived in Europe for seven years following multiple financial crises (Malcolm Bradbury 9). Pudd’nhead Wilson was published by Mark Twain in 1894. ![]()
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