by Mark Twain · Rialp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432125799
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«Príncipe y mendigo» is the classic children's novel by Mark Twain, published by Rialp in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
It tells of the encounter between Prince Edward of England and the beggar Tom Canty, two boys of identical appearance who exchange their clothes and their lives. The swap brings each one face to face with the poverty of the streets and the protocol of the court in sixteenth-century London, while no one in the palace suspects the change.
Classic originally published in 1881 as «The Prince and the Pauper». This Spanish-language edition, from 1989, belongs to the Nuevo Auriga collection (number 56).
Aimed at children and young adults, it serves as school reading and an introduction to the classics.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
