“the best book for young folks that ever was written” – Harriet Beecher Stowe on The Prince and the Pauper
TWAIN, MARK. The Prince and the Pauper
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882
Original green cloth. Spine ends frayed. A very good copy.
FIRST EDITION, mixed states. Several errors were corrected in the course of printing. In this copy page 362, line 3 from bottom is in the first, uncorrected state (reigned, not reined), while the other corrections have been made: page 124, line 1, “estate” is corrected to “state” and p. 263, line 9 from bottom, “do not” is corrected to “do.”
A departure from Twain’s previous novels, this tale of sixteenth-century England was intended as a work for children and the family circle. The book is illustrated with nearly 200 wood engravings. Twain declared that the boys in those illustrations “look and dress exactly as I used to cast them in my mind … It is a vast pleasure to see them cast in the flesh, so to speak.”
Twain’s first historical novel, the book achieved wide acclaim, though Twain’s friend William Dean Howells observed that some of it was “strong milk for babes.”
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