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9780451521934
The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classic)
by Mark Twain
by Mark Twain
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- Condition: Good
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- Comments: Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition, 223 pages. Afterword by Kenneth S. Lyon. Revised and Updated Bibliography. Clean, unmarked card cover with hinge crease and slight edgewear. Pages clean an dunmarked also, The classic tale of the exchange in position of a child of the London slums and Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, 16th century England. Out of the theme of switch identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irrestible comedy.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780451521934
- ISBN: 0451521935
- Edition: Reissue
- Publication Date: 1964
- Publisher: Signet Classics
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SUMMARY
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.Mark Twain is the author of 'The Prince and the Pauper (Signet Classic)', published 1964 under ISBN 9780451521934 and ISBN 0451521935.
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