The Prince and the Pauper - Paperback
by Mark Twain
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Mark Twain, Suzanne Fisher StaplesSeries:Aladdin ClassicsTheme:Chronological Period/16th Century, Cultural Region/BritishAudience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2006-10-01Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416928058ISBN-10:1416928057UPC:9781416928058Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Social Themes, RoyaltyBook Topic:General (see also headings under Family)Size:7.72 x 5.26 x 0.97 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SC24ZN9XRY
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Aladdin PaperbacksISBN-13:9781416928058ISBN-10:1416928057UPC:9781416928058Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Social Themes, RoyaltyBook Topic:General (see also headings under Family)Size:7.72 x 5.26 x 0.97 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SC24ZN9XRY
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature." Suzanne Fisher Staples is the Newbery Honor author of Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind. She lives in Pennsylvania.
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