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The Prince and the Pauper

By Mark Twain
Afterword by Everett Emerson

By Mark Twain
Afterword by Everett Emerson

By Mark Twain
Afterword by Everett Emerson

By Mark Twain
Afterword by Everett Emerson

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    About The Prince and the Pauper

    Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain’s classic satiric comedy.

    They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of roles…with the pauper caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, and the prince wandering, horror-stricken, through the lower depths of sixteenth-century English society.

    Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain has fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that belongs to his most creative period.

    With an Afterword by Everett Emerson 

    About The Prince and the Pauper

    Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain’s classic satiric comedy.

    They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of roles…with the pauper caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, and the prince wandering, horror-stricken, through the lower depths of sixteenth-century English society.

    Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain has fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that belongs to his most creative period.

    With an Afterword by Everett Emerson 

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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

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    May 01, 2002 | 240 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451528353

    Category: Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Signet
    May 01, 2002 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781101078105

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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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