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| Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper. | Elibron Classics, 2000, 226 pages.
ISBN 9780543903846 paperback
ISBN 9780543903839 hardcover |
| | |  | Both children's book and social critique of Tudor England, The Prince and the Pauper follows the adventures of Prince Edward, who finds a pauper who is his exact twin, exchanges clothes with him, and finally - through a mishap - is driven from the court. While pauper Tom attempts to fill Edward's royal duties, Edward is cast into Tom's world of gross poverty, injustice, and religious hypocrisy. Sample Pages We recommend to print out sample pages to evaluate the quality of a reprint. |
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| Mark Twain (1835-1910), list of works | |  | | Taking his pseudonym from nautical terminology learned during his years as an apprentice river pilot ("mark twain" indicates a depth of two fathoms), Samuel Langhorne Clemens first came to the public's attention when he wrote a humorous travelogue entitled The Innocents Abroad. His best-known works include Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but "Mark Twain" also published a number of delightful short stories - including "Eve's Diary" and "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note." At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." |
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