The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain - ISBN: 9781416928058
Paperback
Switched lives, mistaken identities: royalty and rags clash!

The Prince and the Pauper

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    10 November 2006

Summary

Prince Edward inadvertently switches places with Tom Canty, a pauper. While both boys are interested in experiencing life in the other’s shoes, they are dismayed by the realities of their new lives. Written before The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was finished, this tale contains the elements of social criticism that were later to dominate Twain’s writings.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781416928058
ISBN-10:1416928057
Author:Mark Twain, Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Imprint:Aladdin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:10 November 2006
Weight:231g
Dimensions:194mm x 130mm x 25mm
Series:Aladdin Classics
About The Author

Mark Twain

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His humorous tales of human nature, especially The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes. Twain was born and died in years in which Halley’s Comet passed by Earth: 1835 and 1910.

Suzanne Fisher Staples is the Newbery Honor author of Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind. She lives in Pennsylvania.

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