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Fiction · 1881

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Reading time
about 5 h
Length
69,516 words · 148 pages
Structure
33 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

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Contents

  1. Note
  2. Chapter I — The birth of the Prince and the Pauper
  3. Chapter II — Tom’s early life
  4. Chapter III — Tom’s meeting with the Prince
  5. Chapter IV — The Prince’s troubles begin
  6. Chapter V — Tom as a Patrician
  7. Chapter VI — Tom receives instructions
  8. Chapter VII — Tom’s first royal dinner
  9. Chapter VIII — The Question of the Seal
  10. Chapter IX — The river pageant
  11. Chapter X — The Prince in the toils
  12. Chapter XI — At Guildhall
  13. Chapter XII — The Prince and his Deliverer
  14. Chapter XIII — The disappearance of the Prince
  15. Chapter XIV — ‘Le Roi est mort—vive le Roi.’
  16. Chapter XV — Tom as King
  17. Chapter XVI — The State Dinner
  18. Chapter XVII — Foo-foo the First
  19. Chapter XVIII — The Prince with the Tramps
  20. Chapter XIX — The Prince with the peasants
  21. Chapter XX — The Prince and the hermit
  22. Chapter XXI — Hendon to the rescue
  23. Chapter XXII — A Victim of Treachery
  24. Chapter XXIII — The Prince a prisoner
  25. Chapter XXIV — The Escape
  26. Chapter XXV — Hendon Hall
  27. Chapter XXVI — Disowned
  28. Chapter XXVII — In Prison
  29. Chapter XXVIII — The sacrifice
  30. Chapter XXIX — To London
  31. Chapter XXX — Tom’s progress
  32. Chapter XXXI — The Recognition procession
  33. Chapter XXXII — Coronation Day
  34. Chapter XXXIII — Edward as King
  35. Footnotes and Twain’s Notes

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About the author

Mark Twain

1835–1910 · Victorian

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), born in Florida, Missouri, and raised in Hannibal on the Mississippi. He was a printer, a river pilot, a prospector and a journalist in Nevada and California before The Celebrated Jumping Frog (1865) and The Innocents Abroad (1869) made his name. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889) followed. He lectured around the world to recover from bankruptcy in the 1890s and died in Connecticut.

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