Mark Twain, himself partially tainted with racist ideology, and also born with the gift of an artistic bricoleur, created an intensely thought-provoking novella, Pudd’nhead Wilson, which leads us to think out of the way of the working logistics of capitalistic modernity: racism, classism and sexism. In response to such a characteristic of the novella itself, this article addresses the critical issues of Mark Twain’s text, keeping in mind three closely interrelated key words: racism, modern age, and the overcoming of modernity. Pudd’nhead Wilson, brilliantly making use of the three distinctive yet mutually informing narrative clusters?Wilson plot, Roxy-Tom plot, and Twin plot?in addition to deploying felicitously satiric aphorisms of Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar, remains one of the essential classics of the nineteenth-century American novel. By learning to read the context of more-than-meets-the-eye, and by deriving ‘the devil’ out of the novella’s complex details, we can reach the hermeneutic horizon where we can envision the path to overcoming the age of modern capitalism.