by Mark Twain · Burlington · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789963626892
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«The Prince and the Pauper» is the historical novel by Mark Twain published by Burlington Books in paperback (150 pages).
Set in sixteenth-century London, the plot follows two boys born on the same day: Edward, Prince of England, and Tom, a beggar. Fifteen years later they meet, and their encounter triggers a confusion of identities that leads them to experience life in opposite worlds.
Work originally published in 1881; this Burlington Books edition is from 2019.
Aimed at English students in 1st year of secondary school, as supporting reading for language learning.
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.
