THE TRAGEDY OF PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND THE COMEDY OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS
Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1897. Second Edition. Though frequently and erroneously cited as the first fictional use of fingerprints as a method of identification (that would be Twain's "A Thumb-Print and What Came Of It" in Life on the Mississippi), Pudd'nhead Wilson "is nevertheless important because the entire plot..... More