Adventure

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain

A prince and a pauper who happen to share an identical face swap lives on a whim and each discovers, at some personal cost, exactly how little either of them understood about the other’s. Twain used the fairy-tale premise to make a fairly serious point about how thoroughly circumstance shapes character. Neither boy comes back from the experiment quite as certain of his own life as he started.

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Reading time

About 4 hr 45 min

Where to find it

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1837. In the public domain in the United States.