The Prince and the Pauper Centennial Edition Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author), Emerson, Everett (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 0451528352 ISBN-13: 9780451528353 Publisher: Signet Book
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: May 2002 Annotation: Mark Twain's classic tale of two boys, identical in appearance but not in class in English society, who switch identities was both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice, and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that appeared during his happiest creative period. Features a new Afterword. (May) Click for more in this series: Signet Classics |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2001057683 |
Age Level: 8-12 |
Grade Level: 3-7 |
Lexile Measure: 610 HL (High-Low) |
Series: Signet Classics |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.1" W x 6.7" L (0.25 lbs) 240 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 54437 Reading Level: 9.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Two boys exchange their clothes and their lives in Mark Twain's classic satiric comedy. They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference really is becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of roles...with the pauper caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, and the prince wandering, horror-stricken, through the lower depths of sixteenth-century English society. Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain has fashioned both a scathing attack upon social hypocrisy and injustice and an irresistible comedy imbued with the sense of high-spirited play that belongs to his most creative period. With an Afterword by Everett Emerson |
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