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Mark Twain

The Prince and the Pauper

Name: The Prince and the Pauper
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 6be823ad-3c0c-9409-2b03-c788840b1282-sr-en
Price: 33.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Mark Twain

Original publication: 1881
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 408
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Children's Literature, Romance
Translated from: English

Book summary

Tom Canty, a poor child living in misery, accidentally meets Prince Edward, who looks strikingly like him. For fun, they exchange roles but become trapped in lives that are not their own. Tom discovers the constraints of power, while Edward faces the harshness of the streets. Each must adapt to survive and understand the other’s reality. The author presents an accessible social critique, exploring inequality and the illusions tied to social status.

The plot

A poor boy dreams of seeing a prince. Tom Canty lives in London. An old priest teaches him to read and tells him stories about princes.

The world of the book

London in 1547, in the time of King Henry VIII. The story takes place in London in 1547. The King of England is Henry VIII.

The author

A riverboat pilot turned writer. He grows up on the Mississippi, the great American river, and becomes a steamboat pilot. By his own account, his pen name comes from there: “mark twain” is the call that signals water…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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