Mark Twain: The Prince and the pauper

Mark Twain is a famous American writer, journalist and public figure. His work covers many genres - humor, satire, philosophical fiction, journalism, etc. William Faulkner called him the first truly American writer, and Ernest Hemingway believed that all modern American literature came from one book by Mark Twain - "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". "The Prince and the Pauper" is the writer's first and most famous historical novel. It is about two boys born on the same day - Prince Edward and a street urchin Tom Canty, who turned out to be surprisingly similar to each other and changed places: Tom remained in the royal palace, and Prince Edward went to the London slums ... The book provides an unadapted text of the novel with comments and a dictionary.