The Prince and the Pauper [with Biographical Introduction]
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"One of the great scholarly enterprises of the century. . . . If you want to enjoy, and to understand fully, the genius of Mark Twain, the California editions are the only texts to have." "London Telegraph [Michael Shelden]
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Tom Canty and Edward Tudor could have been identical twins. Their birthdays match, their faces match, but there the likeness stops. For Edward is a prince, heir to King Henry VIII, whilst Tom is a miserable pauper. But when fate intervenes, Edward is thrown out of the palace in rags, leaving ignorant Tom to play the part of a royal prince. Even those who have never read the novel will be familiar with Twain's classic tale of mistaken identity: at once an adventure story and a fantasy of timeless appeal.
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IN THE ANCIENT CITY of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. Read the first page
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IN THE ANCIENT CITY of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. Read the first page
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a sublime `drama' of errors. The prince and the pauper change clothes and are mistaken by the whole population for one another. The prince lives a life of a vagabond and the pauper a royal one. In other words, all men are equal; one has only to change the garments. And, `So evanescent and unstable are men's works in the world.'
This book gives a fair picture of England in the 16th century, worth a Defoe or a Swift: the immense chasm between the rich and the poor, a heavily biased and corrupt judicial system and extremely cruel punishment. `It was a crime to be hungry in England.'
People were hanged for trifling larcenies and slowly boiled for alleged poisoning. `Witches' were burnt at the stake: `My good old blameless mother strove to earn bread by nursing the sick; one of these died, the doctors knew not how, so my mother was burnt for a witch, whilst my babes looked on and wailed ... drink to the merciful English law that delivered her from the English hell!'
The rich chased their farmers away by foreclosures (changing farms in sheep ranges), making instantly beggars of them. They risked heavily to be sold as slaves.
This book is a bittersweet Breughelian comedy about human injustice, cruelty and ultimately generosity.
Not to be missed.
This book gives a fair picture of England in the 16th century, worth a Defoe or a Swift: the immense chasm between the rich and the poor, a heavily biased and corrupt judicial system and extremely cruel punishment. `It was a crime to be hungry in England.'
People were hanged for trifling larcenies and slowly boiled for alleged poisoning. `Witches' were burnt at the stake: `My good old blameless mother strove to earn bread by nursing the sick; one of these died, the doctors knew not how, so my mother was burnt for a witch, whilst my babes looked on and wailed ... drink to the merciful English law that delivered her from the English hell!'
The rich chased their farmers away by foreclosures (changing farms in sheep ranges), making instantly beggars of them. They risked heavily to be sold as slaves.
This book is a bittersweet Breughelian comedy about human injustice, cruelty and ultimately generosity.
Not to be missed.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Tom Canty was still a small, poor boy until he met Edward Tudor, the Prince of Wales, who decided positions.So he became the Prince of Wales, while Edward Tudor became him. But fate then casts them out into each other's worlds for adventure beyond their wildest dreams!
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a very funny and adventurous story that Mark Twain, (who was probably a genius), wrote about identity mistakes.
Tom Carty and Edward Tudor live very different lives yet they seem so similar - for one thing they look like each other. One day, the two boys meet and the heir to the throne and the poor poverty stricken lad have a wonderful idea and they carry it out...
The young men get a chance to live a new life and find out about how the outside world/ the life in the palace is like.
I am quite sure that you or your children have watched the Disney film of this book, which is quite amusing. Did you know that this book was the inspiration for it? Yes/ no, well know you do!
Tom Carty and Edward Tudor live very different lives yet they seem so similar - for one thing they look like each other. One day, the two boys meet and the heir to the throne and the poor poverty stricken lad have a wonderful idea and they carry it out...
The young men get a chance to live a new life and find out about how the outside world/ the life in the palace is like.
I am quite sure that you or your children have watched the Disney film of this book, which is quite amusing. Did you know that this book was the inspiration for it? Yes/ no, well know you do!
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