... squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. All lies and jest. Still, a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. - Simon & Garfunkel, The Boxer, 1970 Pudd'nhead Wilson & Those Extraordinary Sins Interpreting Mark Twain's work within our distinctly American cultural heritage has absorbed the careers of countless literary scholars. How a complete neophyte can address such issues with any ... Twain's protagonists, both black and white, including Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Jim, Pap, The Boss, Pudd'nhead, Tom Driscoll, Chambers and Roxy, Sam Clemens wa...

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