Mark Twain: The Prince and the Pauper

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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Stock: 1-10 copies

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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.

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