Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain's classic satiric comedy.
ISBN:
9780451528353
Author:
Mark Twain
Page:
227
Binding:
Soft cover
Publication date:
2002
Publisher:
SIGNET
Language:
English
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Price: 1 150 Ft
Stock: 1-10 copies
Description
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.