Description
The Prince and the Pauper (Enriched Classics)
01 Jun 2006
by Mark Twain
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster
- Language : English
- Pages : 320
- ISBN-10 : ?1416523685
- ISBN-13 : 9781416523680
Two young men — one a child of the London slums, the other an heir to the throne — switch identities in this timeless novel about class and culture in sixteenth-century England.
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Average Rating:
3.9 rating based on 120,161 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1416523685
ISBN-13: 9781416523680
Goodreads: 62447
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This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is.
3.9 rating based on 120,161 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 1416523685
ISBN-13: 9781416523680
Goodreads: 62447
Author(s):
Published: //
This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really is.
