| The Prince and the Pauper: Volume 6 Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author), Fischer, Victor (Editor), Salamo, Lin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520036220 ISBN-13: 9780520036222 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $78.16 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1979 Annotation: "Unquestionably the best book he has ever written."'--Susy Clemens, aged thirteen |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 77091766 |
| Lexile Measure: 610 |
| Series: Works of Mark Twain |
| Physical Information: 1.48" H x 6.2" W x 9.28" (1.84 lbs) 552 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it. Mark Twain's tale became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, young Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks exactly like him, are suddenly forced to change places. The prince endures rags & hardships while the pauper suffers the horrible miseries of princedom. Mark Twain called his book a tale for young people of all ages, and it has become a classic of American literature. The first edition in 1881 was fully illustrated by Frank Merrill, John Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. The boys in these illustrations, Mark Twain said, look and dress exactly as I used to see them cast in my mind. . . . It is a vast pleasure to see them cast in the flesh, so to speak. This Mark Twain Library edition exactly reproduces the text of the California scholarly edition, including all of the 192 illustrations that so pleased the author. |