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 EmersonAuthor: Mark Twain
Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 05/01/2002
Series: Signet Classics
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.70h x 4.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780451528353
Language: English
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