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    The Prince And The Pauper

    By Mark Twain, Frank Thayer Merrill, John J. Harley and

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    Set in Renaissance England, "The Prince and the Pauper" tells the story of Tom Canty, a ragged pauper, and young Edward VI, only son of Henry VIII, who look exactly alike. Almost by accident, the boys exchange places days before Henry’s death and Edward’s coronation, leaving Tom to the role of future king and Edward to the mercy of the beggars’ underworld. A rousing tale of mistaken identity.

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    "The Prince and the Pauper" is a historical novel by the American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known under his pen name Mark Twain (1835-1910), published in 1881. Mark Twain has become especially famous for his adventure novels around the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

    In this story, which plays in England in the middle of the sixteenth century, Twain uses an unusual style, which reminds of Charles Dickens. The novel uses the classic motif of a case of mistaken identity, linked to the social ascent or descent of the respective protagonist. Through the associated experiences, both main characters are experiencing a process of maturing and gaining knowledge, in which they learn to better understand the problems of each other´s life environment. The book is Twain’s first historical novel, which was later followed by "A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur".

    This edition is based upon the original text, it is unabridged, annotated, and is generously decorated with beautiful illustrations by Frank Thayer Merrill, John J. Harley and L. S. Ipsen. The eBook corresponds to about 250 book pages.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherapebook Verlag
    Release dateAug 22, 2017
    ISBN9783961300877
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    Mark Twain

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.

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