Classic Starts, Mark Twain
Classic Starts, Mark Twain
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Classic Starts®
The Prince and the Pauper

Author: Mark Twain, Kathleen Olmstead

Narrator: Rebecca K. Reynolds

Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 08/11/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.

One boy, penniless and in rags, forced to beg in the street. The other, a king’s son, coddled and given all he could want. What happens when the two boys change clothes and places, and each one learns how the other half lives? Mark Twain’s satirical and suspenseful novel about the thin line that separates prince and pauper is a perennial favorite.

About The Author

Mark Twain was born Samuel L. Clemens in Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835. He worked as a printer, and then became a steamboat pilot. He traveled throughout the West, writing humorous sketches for newspapers. In 1865, he wrote the short story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, which was very well received. He then began a career as a humorous travel writer and lecturer, publishing The Innocents Abroad in 1869, Roughing It in 1872, and, Gilded Age in 1873, which was co-authored with Charles Dudley Warner. His best-known works are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mississippi Writing: Life on the Mississippi, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on September 10, 2023

Oops! Tom Canty is a poor beggar in the streets of London, wishing for a better future; Edward Tudor is the young prince of Wales, bored to death with court life. By those weird chances of fate they find themselves changing places, and nobody the wiser, since they look like identical twins. A prin......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on June 21, 2020

The soft, more or less for the time, child friendly, today possibly not so much anymore, variation of Twains´ interpretation of the Middle Ages that is more realistic hardcore dark in his underrated masterpiece A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s court. [URL not allowed] Espe......more

Goodreads review by Henry on June 13, 2024

Imagine you're a nine-year-old boy grungy rags for clothes, belly empty a sadistic father beats you if you don't beg for money (and get it) . Afraid of life an endless, joyless struggle to survive. The only relief from the grim reality is sleep, for a few hours on the dirty floor in something not qu......more

Goodreads review by Dave on March 01, 2018

I read this several times as a kid, and loved it. Twain humor and class commentary about the hypocrisy of the upper classes. And a fantasy, turned weekly into a Disney movie that sapped all the Twain and satire out of it. Then many many spinoff books and movies. But the idea of a beggar switching pl......more

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