| Title | : | The Prince and the Pauper |
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| Author | : | Mark Twain |
| Release | : | 2018-10-03 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Classics |
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| 1 | The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain |
| This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles--a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. The Prince, dressed in rags, wanders about the city's boisterous neighborhoods among the lower classes and endures a series of hardships; meanwhile, poor Tom, now living with the royals, is constantly filled with the dread of being discovered for who and what he really i |
