The Prince & The Pauper+Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain (Hardcover)

Description: The Prince and The Pauper & Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain (2 Novels in 1 Volume) Mark Twain asked "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. Those Extraordinary Twins was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson. As Mark Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pudd'nhead" when he found, as he was writing, that he'd created a farce inside a tragedy. This is the excised farce, a story about Italian Siamese twins who completely take over a small Missouri town, splitting it down the middle with half supporting one head and the other, the other head. Ships FREE via USPS Media Mail.

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