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    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper"
    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper"
    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper"
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    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper"

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    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535839006
    A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper"

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      A Study Guide for Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" - Gale

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      The Prince and the Pauper

      Mark Twain

      1881

      Introduction

      The only one of Mark Twain's novels written specifically for children, The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881. A historical novel set in sixteenth-century England, The Prince and the Pauper appropriates some historical facts, such as those relating to the Tudors, the family of King Henry VIII, in order to tell a tale of mistaken identity. When the young and impoverished Tom Canty, who is fascinated by the king's son, Prince Edward, is treated rudely by one of the king's soldiers, Prince Edward defends Tom and invites him into his personal chambers inside the palace. There, the two young boys compare the details of their very different lives and also discover the similarity in their appearances. After the prince rushes out, wearing Tom's clothes, to admonish the soldier who injured Tom, the prince is assumed to be a poor beggar and is barred from the palace. Throughout the remainder of the novel, Edward attempts to survive on the streets of London and beyond, while Tom muddles his way through affairs of state, attempting to play the role of the prince since no one believes his claim that he is not Edward. Likewise, Edward asserts his name and station, but he is laughed at and treated rudely for claiming to be royalty. The class differences between the two boys and the inequalities inherent in such a class system are a main focus of the novel, as are such themes as religious intolerance and the notion of personal identity. In the end, the matter of mistaken identity is resolved and all wrongs made right.

      Originally published in 1881, The Prince and the Pauper is available in numerous modern editions, including the 2003 edition published by The Modern Library.

      Author Biography

      When Twain was born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, he was named Samuel Langhorne Clemens. The pseudonym Mark Twain was one he adopted later in life. His parents were John Marshall Clemens and Jane Clemens, and they and Samuel's five siblings had just moved to Missouri from Tennessee when he was born. When Samuel was about four years old, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, the town where Samuel would spend his youth and that consequently became the setting of two of Twain's most well-known novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Samuel attended school until his father died in 1847. He now needed to help support the nearly destitute family, which had been left impoverished by John Clemens's failed business ventures. Samuel worked as an apprentice and typesetter for Hannibal newspapers, some of which were owned by his brother. In 1853, when he was eighteen, Samuel Clemens left home, traveling to St. Louis, New York, and Philadelphia. He later spent time in Washington, D.C., and lived briefly in St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincinnati, Ohio. His brother, Orion, published his travel writings in the newspapers he owned (including the Hannibal Western Union and Journal and the Muscatine Journal). In 1857, Clemens secured a position as a cub pilot on a steamboat that traveled the Mississippi River. He received his own pilot's license two years later. The outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 shut down the river traffic, however. That same year, he and Orion traveled to Nevada, where Orion had been appointed secretary to the governor of the Territory of Nevada. Clemens wandered, speculating in silver and writing correspondence pieces for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1862, he was hired as a regular reporter for that same paper and worked there for two years. It was here, in 1863, that he first used the pseudonym (or pen name)

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