by Mark Twain · Pearson English Language Teaching · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780003700893
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«The Prince and the Poor Boy» is the version adapted by Viola Huggins of Mark Twain's novel «The Prince and the Pauper», in paperback, in English.
In sixteenth-century England, a prince and a poor boy who look very much alike exchange their clothes for fun and end up living each other's lives. The contrast between the court and the streets allows Mark Twain to show social injustices, the harshness of the law, and the importance of appearances.
Graded reader from the Collins English Library series, level 2, published in 1978. Mark Twain's original novel was published in 1881.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language looking for level 2 graded readers.
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.
