The Prince and the Pauper (Mark Twain Library) by Mark Twain,Frank T. Merrill,John J. Harley,L. S.

By Mark Twain,Frank T. Merrill,John J. Harley,L. S. Ipsen,Victor Fischer,Michæl B. Frank,Michael B. Frank

"What am I writing? A old story of three hundred years in the past, easily for the affection of it." Mark Twain’s "tale" grew to become his first historic novel, The Prince and the Pauper, released in 1881. Intricately plotted, it used to be meant to have the texture of background although it used to be simply the stuff of legend. In sixteenth-century England, younger Prince Edward (son of Henry VIII) and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who seems precisely like him, are unexpectedly compelled to alter areas. The prince endures "rags & hardships" whereas the pauper suffers the "horrible miseries of princedom." Mark Twain referred to as his booklet a "tale for adolescents of all ages," and it has turn into a vintage of yankee literature.

The first version in 1881 was once totally illustrated by way of Frank Merrill, John Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. the men in those illustrations, Mark Twain stated, "look and get dressed precisely as I used to determine them forged in my brain. . . . it's a massive excitement to work out them forged within the flesh, with the intention to speak." This Mark Twain Library variation precisely reproduces the textual content of the California scholarly variation, together with all the 192 illustrations that so happy the author.

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