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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called ¿Tom¿ who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835¿1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels ¿The…mehr

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Fearing for the safety of her young child's life, a young slave called Roxy swaps her light-skinned baby with that of her master. Her master's child grows up as a slave, while Roxy's child grows up as a white man called ¿Tom¿ who becomes cruel and ends up leading a life crime. The book is a cutting indictment of a society based on racial prejudice and slavery brimming with Twain's characteristic wit and irony. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835¿1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels ¿The Adventures of Tom Sawyer¿ (1876) and ¿The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn¿ (1884). Other notable works by this author include: ¿The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today¿ (1873) and ¿The Prince and the Pauper¿ (1881). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.
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Autorenporträt
Mark Twain (1835-1910), geboren als Samuel Langhorne Clemens, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Humorist und Dozent, der für seinen Witz und seine lebendige Darstellung des amerikanischen Lebens im 19. Er wird weithin als einer der größten amerikanischen Autoren angesehen. In seinen Werken setzt sich Twain häufig mit Themen wie Ethnie, Gesellschaft und Moral auseinander. Zu seinen bekanntesten Romanen gehören Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer und Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn, die als Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Literatur gelten.