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Mistaken identity! Subterfuge! Plots and counterplots! Does this sound like the latest murder-mystery novel? Well, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in one of the best childhood fantasy novels ever written. Mark Twain wrote The Prince and the Pauper and dedicated it to his two... read more

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First Sentence

IN the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Mark Twain (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Teddy Slater
  2. Shirley Bogart
  3. Bob Blaisdell
  4. Jerry Griswold (Introduction)
  5. R. A. Hatherell (Illustrator)
  6. F. T. Merril (Illustrator)
  7. Edward Wagenknecht (Introduction)
  8. Clarke Hutton (Illustrator)
  9. Robert Lawson (Illustrator)
  10. Everett Emerson (Afterword)
  11. Franklin Booth (Illustrator)
 

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