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"What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for
the love of it." Mark Twain's "tale" became his first historical
novel, "The Prince and the Pauper, " published in 1881. Intricately
plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it
was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young
Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who
looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The
prince endures "rags & hardships" while the pauper suffers the
"horrible miseries of princedom." Mark Twain called his book a
"tale for young people of all ages," and it has become a classic of
American literature.
The first edition in 1881 was fully illustrated by Frank Merrill,
John Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. The boys in these illustrations, Mark
Twain said, "look and dress exactly as I used to see them cast in
my mind. . . . It is a vast pleasure to see them cast in the flesh,
so to speak." This Mark Twain Library edition exactly reproduces
the text of the California scholarly edition, including all of the
192 illustrations that so pleased the author.
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince And The
Pauper is a delight satire of England's romantic past and a joyful
boyhood romp filled with the same tongue-in-cheek irony that
sparked the best of Mark Twain's tall tales. Two boys, one an
urchin from London's filthy lanes, the other a prince born in a
lavish palace, unwittingly trade identities. Thus a bedraggled
Prince of Poverty discovers that his private dreams have all the
come true -- while a pampered Prince of Wales finds himself tossed
into a rough-and-tumble world of squalid beggars and villainous
thieves. Originally written as a story for children, The Prince And
The Pauper is a classic novel for adults as well -- through its
stinging attack on the ageless human folly of attempting to measure
true worth by outer appearances.
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