Mark Twain (1835-1910) - a famous American writer, journalist, and public figure. His work spans multiple genres - humor, satire, philosophical fiction, journalism, and more. William Faulkner called him the first truly American writer, and Ernest Hemingway believed that all modern American literature came from one book by Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
"The Prince and the Pauper" is the first and most famous historical novel by the writer. It tells the story of two boys born on the same day - Prince Edward and street boy Tom Canty, who were remarkably similar to each other and swapped places: Tom stayed in the royal palace while Prince Edward went to the London slums…
The book provides the unadapted text of the novel with comments and a dictionary.
