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The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

Two identical boys—Prince Edward Tudor and pauper Tom Canty—meet by chance and swap clothes, only to find themselves trapped in each other's lives.

"The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain is a novel. Two identical boys—Prince Edward Tudor and pauper Tom Canty—meet by chance and swap clothes, only to find themselves trapped in each other's lives.

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Chapter III. Tom’s meeting with the Prince.

Tom got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away, but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night’s dreams. He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, or what was happening around him. People jostled him, and some gave him rough speech; but it was all lost on the musing boy. By-and-by he found himself at Temple Bar, the farthest from home he had ever travelled in that direction. He stopped and considered a moment, then fell into his imaginings again, and passed on outside the walls of London. The Strand had ceased to be a country-road then, and regarded itself as a street, but by a strained construction; for, though there was a tolerably compact row of houses on one side of it, there were only some scattered great buildings on the other, these being palaces of rich nobles, with ample and beautiful grounds stretching to the river—grounds that are now closely packed with grim acres of brick and stone.

Contents

  1. 01The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.
  2. 02"Splendid Pageants and Great Bonfires"
  3. 03Tom’s early life.
  4. 04Offal Court
  5. 05"With Any Miserable Crust"
  6. 06"He Often Read the Priest’s Books"
  7. 07"Saw Poor Anne Askew Burned"
  8. 08"Brought Their Perplexities to Tom"
  9. 09"Longing for the Pork-Pies”
  10. 10Tom’s meeting with the Prince.
  11. 11"At Temple Bar"
  12. 12"Let Him in"
  13. 13"How Old Be These
  14. 14"Doff Thy Rags, and Don These Splendors"
  15. 15"I Salute Your Gracious Highness!”
  16. 16The Prince’s troubles begin.
  17. 17"Set Upon by Dogs"
  18. 18"A Drunken Ruffian Collared Him"
  19. 19Tom as a patrician.
  20. 20"Next He Drew the Sword"
  21. 21"Resolved to Fly"
  22. 22"The Boy Was on His Knees"
  23. 23"Nobles Walked Upon Each Side of Him"
  24. 24"He Dropped Upon His Knees"
  25. 25"He Turned with Joyful Face"
  26. 26"The Physician Bowed Low"
  27. 27"The King Fell Back Upon His Couch"
  28. 28"Is This Man to Live Forever?"
  29. 29Tom receives instructions.
  30. 30"Prithee, Insist Not"
  31. 31"The Lord St. John Made Reverence"
  32. 32Hertford and the Princesses
  33. 33"She Made Reverence"
  34. 34"Offered It to Him on a Golden Salver"
  35. 35"They Mused a While"
  36. 36"Peace My Lord, Thou Utterest Treason!”
  37. 37"He Began to Pace the Floor"
  38. 38Tom’s first royal dinner.
  39. 39"Fastened a Napkin About His Neck"
  40. 40"Tom Ate with His Fingers"
  41. 41"He Gravely Took a Draught"
  42. 42"Tom Put on the Greaves"
  43. 43The question of the Seal.
  44. 44"Eased Him Back Upon His Pillows"
  45. 45The river pageant.
  46. 46"Halberdiers Appeared in the Gateway"
  47. 47"Tom Canty Stepped Into View"
  48. 48The Prince in the toils.
  49. 49"A Dim Form Sank to the Ground"
  50. 50"Who Art Thou?"
  51. 51"Into Good Wife Canty’s Arms"
  52. 52"Bent Heedfully and Warily Over Him"
  53. 53"The Prince Sprang Up"
  54. 54"Hurried Him Along the Dark Way"
  55. 55"He Waste No Time"
  56. 56At Guildhall.
  57. 57"A Rich Canopy of State"
  58. 58"Began to Lay About Him"
  59. 59"Long Live the King!”
  60. 60The Prince and his deliverer.

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
435 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers