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Summary
Summary
The Prince and the Pauper is one of Twain's best-known and best-loved books throughout the world. In this historical tale set in mid-nineteenth-century England, the Prince of Wales and a lookalike pauper exchange places by accident just days before Henry VIII's death. Each boy finds that his "father" believes him to be mad; each is befriended by his "sister;" and each wakes from sleep thinking that his trying experiences have been just a bad dream. Along the way each learns crucial lessons about manners, morals, justice, and compassion. Mark Twain immersed himself in English history to write this novel and passed on reference books to the artists so that their illustrations could be historically accurate. He was "enchanted" with the pictures they produced. His daughter Susy was convinced that The Prince and the Pauper, a book her father subtitled, "a tale for young people of all ages" was "the best book he has ever written."
Author Notes
Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Table of Contents
Editor's Note | p. x |
Foreword | p. xi |
Notes | p. XXVII |
Introduction | p. XXXI |
Chapter I The Birth of the Prince and the Pauper | p. 23 |
Chapter II Tom's Early Life | p. 27 |
Chapter III p. 37 | |
Chapter IV The Prince's Troubles Begin | p. 49 |
Chapter V Tom as a Patrician | p. 70 |
Chapter VI Tom Receives Instructions | p. 86 |
Chapter VII Tom's First Royal Dinner | p. 89 |
Chapter VIII The Question of the Seal | p. 97 |
Chapter IX The River Pageant | p. 103 |
Chapter X The Prince in the Toils | p. 109 |
Chapter XI At Guildhall | p. 123 |
Chapter XII The Prince and His Deliverer | p. 133 |
Chapter XIII The Disappearance of the Prince | p. 158 |
Chapter XIV Le Roi EST Mort Vive le Roi | p. 176 |
Chapter XV Tom as King | p. 179 |
Chapter XVI The State Dinner | p. 200 |
Chapter XVII Foo-Foo the First | p. 203 |
Chapter XVIII The Prince with the Tramps | p. 223 |
Chapter XIX The Prince with the Peasants | p. 237 |
Chapter XX The Prince and the Hermit | p. 247 |
Chapter XXI Hendon to the Rescue | p. 266 |
Chapter XXII A Victim of Treachery | p. 278 |
Chapter XXIII The Prince a Prisoner | p. 281 |
Chapter XXIV The Escape | p. 289 |
Chapter XXV Hendon Hall | p. 295 |
Chapter XXVI Disowned | p. 309 |
Chapter XXVII In Prison | p. 317 |
Chapter XXVII The Sacrifice | p. 333 |
Chapter XXIX To London | p. 341 |
Chapter XXX Tom's Progress | p. 347 |
Chapter XXXI The Recognition Procession | p. 353 |
Chapter XXXII Coronation Day | p. 382 |
Chapter XXXIII Edward as King | p. 396 |
Conclusion: Justice and Retribution | p. 402 |
Notes | p. 405 |
General Note | p. 410 |
Afterword | p. 413 |
Notes | p. 426 |
For Further Reading | p. 429 |
Illustrators and Illustrations in Mark Twain's First American Editions | p. 430 |
Reading the Illustrations in the Prince and the Pauper | p. 434 |
Notes | p. 437 |
A Note on the Text | p. 439 |
The Mark Twain House | p. 440 |
Contributors | p. 441 |
Acknowledgments | p. 443 |