The Prince and the Pauper
Hardback
05 March 2020Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
A classic tale of mistaken identity, adventure, and social justice in Tudor England.
The Prince and the Pauper is a classic adventure set in Tudor London, told with Mark Twain's trademark humour and concern for social justice. When penniless Tom Canty and the heir to the throne, Edward Tudor, meet by chance, they're amazed by their uncanny resemblance. Agreeing to swap...
272 pages
9781529011883Details
05 March 2020272 pages
9781529011883Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Reviews
Twain's great virtue as a writer, his genius, was his deliberate refusal of borrowed propriety or scale. The tallest of tales could be fashioned from the most modest of ingredientsTim Adams, Guardian
Twain was ahead of his time. He was one of America’s first modern celebrities, an icon of the first age of mass mediaBen Tarnoff, New Yorker
Twain was surely the American Dickens, however much he would have hated the phrase—and however high a tribute it seems todayEllen Moers, New York Review of Books
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