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The Prince and the Pauper

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Jerry Griswold

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Jerry Griswold

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Jerry Griswold

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Jerry Griswold

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Dec 01, 1997 | ISBN 9780140436693

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Dec 01, 1997 | ISBN 9781101567968

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    About The Prince and the Pauper

    Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays match, their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is a prince, heir to King Henry VIII, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But when fate intervenes, Edward is thrown out of the palace in rags, leaving ignorant Tom to play the part of a royal prince. Even those who have never read the novel will be familiar with Twain’s classic tale of mistaken identity: at once an adventure story and a fantasy of timeless appeal.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Prince and the Pauper

    Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain’s classic “tale for young people of all ages” features two identical-looking boys—a prince and a pauper—who trade clothes and step into each other’s lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, The Prince and the Pauper is “funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet also chock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues against society’s ills.”

    This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Mark Twain Project edition, which is the approved text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

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    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $11.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Dec 01, 1997 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140436693

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Dec 01, 1997 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781101567968
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    “Twain was . . . enough of a genius to build his morality into his books, with humor and wit and—in the case of The Prince and the Pauper—wonderful plotting.” —E. L. Doctorow

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