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The prince and the pauper
Record details
- ISBN: 1982461373 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9781982461379 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 26 min.)) : digital.
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electronic resource
electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2012.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Steve West. |
Summary, etc.: | They look alike, but they live in very different worlds. Tom Canty, impoverished and abused by his father, is fascinated with royalty. Edward Tudor, heir to the throne of England, is kind and generous but wants to run free and play in the river-just once. How insubstantial their differences truly are becomes clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing-and roles. The pauper finds himself caught up in the pomp and folly of the royal court, a role which is further complicated when the king dies soon after the switch; and the prince wanders horror-stricken through the lower strata of English society. Out of the theme of switched identities, Mark Twain fashioned both a fiery assault upon social hypocrisy and injustice and a riotous comedy filled with high-spirited play. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Boys Fiction Princes Fiction Poor children Fiction London (England) Fiction Impostors and imposture Fiction Edward VI, King of England 1537-1553 Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |