# The Prince and the Pauper - Paperback

by **Mark Twain** (Author), **Christopher Paul Curtis** (Introduction by)

Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain's classic "tale for young people of all ages" features two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--who trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, _The Prince and the Pauper_ is "funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet also chock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues against society's ills."

This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Mark Twain Project edition, which is the approved text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

### Front Jacket

Set in sixteenth-century England, Mark Twain's classic "tale for young people of all ages" features two identical-looking boys--a prince and a pauper--who trade clothes and step into each other's lives. While the urchin, Tom Canty, discovers luxury and power, Prince Edward, dressed in rags, roams his kingdom and experiences the cruelties inflicted on the poor by the Tudor monarchy. As Christopher Paul Curtis observes in his Introduction, "The Prince and the Pauper is "funny, adventurous, and exciting, yet also chock-full of . . . exquisitely reasoned harangues against society's ills."  
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the Mark Twain Project edition, which is the approved text of the Center for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association.

### Author Biography

**Christopher Paul Curtis**, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award, is the author of _The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963_ and _Bud, Not Buddy_. He is currently at work on a novel entitled _Bucking the Sarge_.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 0.53 x 8.1 x 5.22 IN

**Publication Date:** July 08, 2003

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Prince and the Pauper (Unabridged)

**Interest Level:** Upper Middle Grades, 6 and up

**Reading Level:** 9.5

**Point Value:** 13

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