Prince and the Pauper E-book
Author: Mark Twain
Genre: Children Stories, Literature
Twain, Mark (pen name of Samuel Clemens) (1835-1910) - American humorist
whose pseudonym was adopted from his days as a Mississippi steamboat pilot,
"mark twain" meaning "two fathoms deep." He introduced colloquial speech
into American writing and was the most popular writer of his time.
Prince and the Pauper (1881) - The story of Prince Edward, later Edward VI,
and the pauper, Tom Canty, who change clothes and places. This satire on
class distinctions remains a children's favorite.
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