Even if you've never read the novel, you probably already know the story. Even if people don't read this one as often as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, the story itself has been adapted into movies, TV shows, video games, novels, and pretty much anything else that you can imagine. The Prince and the Pauper may not be as popular-or as controversial-as Twain's other novels, but it shows a different side of this author. Yonge, who wrote a book called The Prince and the Page. Twain also took the premise from Charlotte M. For instance, most of the book's historical information comes from David Hume's History of Englandand other old English histories. In fact, Twain was influenced by quite a few other authors when he wrote this novel. If you're a Twain lover, you may not even recognize your favorite folksy author underneath all the Dickensian prose. One reason for this might be that The Prince and the Pauper is an unusual book for Mark Twain. Now, Twain himself thought that The Prince and the Pauper was the best thing he had ever written, but it's never been quite as popular as Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer( source). Published in 1881, the story of Prince Edward VI swapping places with a poor boy in 16th-century England was Twain's first foray into historical fiction. But Mark Twain was the first person to write the story that we all know and love as The Prince and the Pauper.
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