by Mark Twain · Puffin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140350173
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«The Prince and the Pauper» is Mark Twain's adventure novel, published by Puffin Classics in paperback (256 pages, in English).
In sixteenth-century England, Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII, and Tom Canty, a London beggar with an identical face, end up swapping their lives. The heir experiences poverty and the streets while the poor boy endures court ceremony; a Twain story about identity, class and justice, with misunderstandings and social critique.
The novel was originally published in 1881. The Puffin Classics edition reproduces the text of the California academic edition and includes the illustrations from the first edition.
A classic of children's and young adult literature, suitable for readers aged 9 to 12.
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.
