Abstract
Mark Twain was caught between different stories and literary modes as he wrote Puddn’head Wilson (1894). His artistic difficulties with his material are suggested in the late change of title from Those Extraordinary Twins.3 They are clear in his account of the ‘literary Caesarean operation’ he performed, when he ‘dug out’ farcical material about Siamese twins to leave the ‘tragic aspect’ of his tale of Roxy and the two changelings intact.4 Twain’s story of this severance is in the first American edition of the text, published as
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