The Prince and the Pauper (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1881
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Historical fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Prisons, Mistaken or secret identity, Friendship, Poverty or poor people, England or English people, Robbery or robbers, Kings, queens, or royalty, Adventure, Sixteenth century, Wealth, Boys, Begging or beggars, Nobility, Princes or princesses, Impostors or imposture
- Locales: London, England
In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain brought together several of his literary interests. His interest in old European civilization, which had been so successfully employed in his travel book The Innocents Abroad and had been essayed again in A Tramp Abroad (1880), is here focused on England, with emphasis upon life in London. (He will come back again to the theme in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which also returns to the idea of taking the novel back into the past.) The novel does not forget the part of Twain's literary gift that is most...
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