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The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

Children's books · History · Novel

Open Library OL53994W

The Prince and the Pauper was first published Canada, before its publication in the United States. The Prince and the Pauper represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.

About the author

Twain’s river books look like boyhood adventures and keep turning into arguments about conscience, fraud, and American speech. Huckleberry Finn is the one that refuses a tidy moral. More of this shelf for Mark Twain.

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