by Mark Twain · Dover Children's · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486293837
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«The Prince and the Pauper» is Mark Twain's juvenile adventure novel, published by Dover Children's in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Two boys in sixteenth-century England, Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a London beggar who looks very much like him, exchange clothes and identities. Each discovers the other's life: the court and the poor neighborhoods, in a plot with humor and social criticism about identity, justice, and class differences.
Text abridged and adapted for young readers by Bob Blaisdell, with illustrations by Thea Kliros. Part of the Dover Children's Thrift Classics collection.
Recommended for children and young readers aged 8 and up, as a first contact with literary classics.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
