The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Modern Library, 2003 - Fiction - 211 pages

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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User Review  - DelightedLibrarian - LibraryThing

SO different from the Disney version its amusing. But it was an interesting read. I wonder whose perspective of history is more accurate, Twains because he was closer in time, or ours because we have more research and available information...

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User Review  - Novak - LibraryThing

Only Mark Twain could have turned this hackneyed old concept into a very readable, enjoyable novel. This Reader’s Digest edition had factual historical notes and a good afterword at the end of the book. First class.

Contents

• Preface: 3
• hi Toms Meeting with the Prince: 12
• The Princes Troubles Begin: 19

About the author

Christopher Paul Curtis, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award, is the author of The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 and Bud, Not Buddy. He is currently at work on a novel entitled Bucking the Sarge.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Prince and the Pauper; Modern Library classics
• Author: Mark Twain
• Contributor: Christopher Paul Curtis
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Modern Library, 2003
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 6, 2008
• ISBN: 0375761128, 9780375761126
• Length: 211 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics