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The Duke: character portrait from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

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The Duke

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A young con man Huck and Jim take aboard the raft, who fraudulently claims to be the disinherited Duke of Bridgewater.

Also known as: duke, Duke of Bridgewater, Bilgewater, William Wilks

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The Duke is a young con man who comes aboard Huck and Jim’s raft and claims to be the disinherited Duke of Bridgewater. Traveling with the man he calls the king, he uses rigged shows and false identities to swindle river towns, including posing as one of the Wilks brothers.

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