The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy & Magic

ISBN-13: 9781598184631 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 184 str.

Mark Twain

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Twain's story has been adapted and, er, borrowed from so often and so freely that you're probably familiar with it even if you've never read of it: a prince of sixteenth-century England meets his double in the slums of London. The two swap clothes -- and lives. Complications ensue. Tom Canty, the urchin, learns how luxury and power can become the death of a man, while his dopplegnger roams his kingdom, learning first hand of the cruelty of the Tudor monarchy. . . .

"Twain was . . . enough of a genius to build his morality into his books, with humor and wit and -- in the case of "The Prince and the Pauper" -- wonderful plotting."
-- E.L. Doctorow