by Mark Twain · Ediciones Forum, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475743493
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«Príncipe y mendigo» is the historical novel by Mark Twain, published by Ediciones Forum, S.A. in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
In sixteenth-century England, Tom Canty, a poor boy from London, and Prince Edward, weary of palace life, discover their astonishing physical resemblance and exchange their clothes and their fates. The false prince enjoys the court while the true heir, mingling with the people, experiences firsthand the harshness and injustices of his kingdom; when he tries to reclaim his identity, no one seems to recognize him.
Published in 1985, it is number 22 of the Grandes Aventuras collection from Ediciones Forum, in a complete edition.
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.
