The prince and the pauper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adventure stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 p.)

Place of Publication:

Scituate, Mass. : Digital Scanning, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His humorous tales of human nature, especially "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), remain standard texts in high school and college literature classes. Twain was born and died in years in which Halley's Comet passed by Earth: 1835 and 1910.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I . THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

CHAPTER II . TOMS EARLY LIFE

CHAPTER III. TOM'S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE

CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCE'S TROUBLES BEGIN

CHAPTER V . TOM AS A PATRICIAN

CHAPTER VI. TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS

CHAPTER VII. TOM'S FIRST ROYAL DINNER

CHAPTER VIII. THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL

CHAPTER IX . THE RIVER PAGEANT

CHAPTER X . THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS

CHAPTER XI. AT GUILD HALL

CHAPTER XII. THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER

CHAPTER XIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE

CHAPTER XIV. "LE ROI EST MORT-VIVE LE ROI"

CHAPTER XV. TOM AS KING

CHAPTER XVI. THE STATE DINNER

CHAPTER XVII. FOO-FOO THE FIRST

CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS

CHAPTER XIX. THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS

CHAPTER XX. THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT

CHAPTER XXI. HENDON TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER XXII. A VICTIM OF TREACHERY

CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE A PRISONER

CHAPTER XXIV. THE ESCAPE

CHAPTER XXV. HENDON HALL

CHAPTER XXVI. DISOWNED

CHAPTER XXVII. IN PRISON

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SACRIFICE

CHAPTER XXIX. TO LONDON

CHAPTER XXX. TOM'S PROGRESS

CHAPTER XXXI. THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION

CHAPTER XXXII. CORONATION DAY

CHAPTER XXXIII. EDWARD AS KING

CONCLUSION - JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION

NOTES

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece)

THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (half-title)

"SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES"

TOM'S EARLY LIFE

OFFAL COURT

"WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST"

"HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST'S BOOKS"

"SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED"

"BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM"

"LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES"

TOM'S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE

"AT TEMPLE BAR"

"LET HIM IN!"

"HOW OLD BE THESE?"

"DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS"

"I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!"

THE PRINCE'S TROUBLES BEGIN.

"SET UPON BY DOGS"

"A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM"

TOM AS A PATRICIAN

"NEXT HE DREW THE SWORD"

"RESOLVED TO FLY"

"THE BOY WAS ON HIS KNEES"

"GREAT NOBLES WALKED UPON EACH SIDE OF HIM"

"HE DROPPED UPON HIS KNEES"

"HE TURNED WITH JOYFUL FACE"

"THE PHYSICIAN BOWED LOW"

"THE KING FELL BACKUP ON HIS COUCH"

"IS THIS MAN TO LIVE FOREVER?"

TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS

"PRITHEE, INSIST NOT"

"THE LORD ST. JOHN MADE REVERENCE".

HERTFORD AND THE PRINCESSES

"SHE MADE REVERENCE"

"OFFERED IT TO HIM ON A GOLDEN SALVER"

"THEY MUSED A WHILE"

"PEACE, MY LORD, THOU UTTEREST TREASON!"

"HE BEGAN TO PACE THE FLOOR"

TOM'S FIRST ROYAL DINNER

"FASTENED A NAPKIN ABOUT HIS NECK"

"TOM ATE WITH HIS FINGERS"

"HE GRAVELY TOOK A DRAUGHT"

"TOM PUT ON THE GREAVES"

THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL

"THE ATTENDANT SEASED HIM BACK UPON HIS PILLOWS".

THE RIVER PAGEANT

"A TROOP OF HALBERDIERS APPEARED IN THE GATEWAY"

"TOM CANTY STEPPED INTO VIEW"

THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS

"A DIM FORM SANK TO THE GROUND"

"WHO ART THOU?"

"SENT HIM STAGGERING INTO GOOD WIFE CANTY'S ARMS"

"SHE BENT HEEDFULLY AND WARILY OVER HIM"

"THE PRINCE SPRANG UP"

"HURRIED HIM ALONG THE DARKWAY"

"HE WASTED NO TIME"

AT GUILDHALL

"A RICH CANOPY OF STATE"

"BEGAN TO LAY ABOUT HIM"

"LONG LIVE THE KING!"

THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER

"OUR FRIENDS THREADED THEIR WAY"

"OBJECT LESSONS" IN ENGLISH HISTORY

"JOHN CANTY MOVED OFF"

"SMOOTHING BACK THE TANGLED CURLS"

"PRITHEE, POUR THE WATER"

"GO ON- TELL ME THY STORY"

"THOU HAST BEEN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED"

"HE DROPPED ON ONE KNEE"

"RISE, SIR MILES HENDON, BARONET"

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE

"HE DROPPED ASLEEP"

"THESE BE VERY GOOD AND SOUND"

"EXPLAIN, THOU LIMB OF SATAN"

"HENDON FOLLOWED AFTER HIM"

"LE ROI EST MORT- VIVE LE ROI".

"WILT DEIGN TO DELIVER THY COMMANDS?"

"THE FIRST LORD OF THE BEDCHAMBER RECEIVED THE HOSE"

"A SECRETARY OF STATE PRESENTED AN ORDER"

"THE BOY ROSE, AND STOOD AT GRACEFUL EASE"

"'TIS I THAT TAKE THEM"

"IF YOUR MAJESTY WILL BUT TAX YOUR MEMORY"

TOM AS KING

"TOM HAD WANDERED TO A WINDOW"

"TOM SCANNED THE PRISONERS"

"LET THE PRISONER GO FREE!"

"WHAT IS IT THAT THESE HAVE DONE?"

"SEVERAL OLD HEADS NODDED THEIR RECOGNITION"

THE STATE DINNER

"A GENTLEMAN BEARING A ROD"

"THE CHANCELLOR BETWEEN TWO"

"I THANK YE, MY GOOD PEOPLE"

"HE MARCHED AWAY IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAGEANT"

FOO-FOO THE FIRST

"THE RUFFIAN FOLLOWED THEIR STEPS"

"HE SEIZED A BILLET OF WOOD"

"HE WAS SOON ABSORBED IN THINKING"

"A GRIM AND UNSIGHTLY PICTURE"

"THEY ROARED OUT A ROLLICKING DITTY"

"WHILST THE FLAMES LICKED UPWARDS"

"THEY WERE WHIPPED AT THE CART'S TAIL"

"THOU SHALT NOT"

"KNOCKING HOBBS DOWN"

'THRONE HIM"

THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS

"THE TROOP OF VAGABONDS SET FORWARD"

"THEY THREW BONES AND VEGETABLES"

"BEGAN TO WRITHE AND WALLOW IN THE DIRT"

"THE KING FLED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION"

"HE STUMBLED ALONG"

"WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WARM ROPE"

"CUDDLED UP TO THE CALF"

THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS

"TOOK A GOOD SATISFYING STARE"

"THE CHILDREN'S MOTHER RECEIVED THE KING KINDLY"

"BROUGHT THE KING OUT OF HIS DREAMS"

"GAVE HIM A BUTCHER KNIFE TO GRIND"

THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT

"HE TURNED AND DESCRIED TWO FIGURES"

"THE KING ENTERED AND PAUSED"

"I WILL TELL YOU A SECRET"

"CHATTING PLEASANTLY ALL THE TIME"

"DREW HIS THUMB ALONG THE EDGE"

"THE NEXT MOMENT THEY WERE BOUND"

HENDON TO THE RESCUE

"SUNK UPON HIS KNEES, HIS KNIFE IN HAND"

"GOD MADE EVERY CREATURE BUT YOU!"

"THE FETTERED LITTLE KING"

A VICTIM OF TREACHERY

"HUGO STOOD NO CHANCE".

"HUGO BOUND THE POULTICE TIGHT AND FAST"

"TARRY HERE TILL I COME AGAIN"

"THE KING SPRANG TO HIS DELIVERER'S SIDE"

THE PRINCE A PRISONER

"GENTLY, GOOD FRIEND"

"SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET"

THE ESCAPE

"THE PIG MAY COST THY NECK, MAN"

"BEAR ME UP, BEAR ME UP, SWEET SIR!"

HENDON HALL

"JOGGING EASTWARD ON SORRY STEEDS"

"THERE IS THE VILLAGE, MY PRINCE!"

"'EMBRACE ME, HUGH, 'HE CRIED"

"HUGH PUT UP HIS HAND IN DISSENT"

"A BEAUTIFUL LADY RICHLY CLOTHED, FOLLOWED HUGH"

"HUGH WAS PINNED TO THE WALL"

DISOWNED

"OBEY, AND HAVE NO FEAR"

"AM I MILES HENDON?"

IN PRISON

"CHAINED IN A LARGE ROOM"

"THE OLD MAN LOOKED HENDON OVER"

"INFORMATION DELIVERED IN A LOW VOICE"

"THE KING!" HE CRIED. "WHAT KING?"

"TWO WOMEN CHAINED TO POSTS"

"TORN AWAY BY THE OFFICERS"

"THE KING WAS FURIOUS"

THE SACRIFICE

"HE CONFRONTED THE OFFICER IN CHARGE"

"WHILE THE LASH WAS APPLIED, THE POOR KING TURNED AWAY HIS FACE"

"SIR HUGH SPURRED AWAY"

TO LONDON

"HENDON MOUNTED AND RODE OFF WITH THE KING"

"IN THE MIDST OF A JAM OF HOWLING PEOPLE"

TOM'S PROGRESS

"TO KISS HIS HAND AT PARTING"

"COMMANDED HER TO GO TO HER CLOSET"

THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION

THE START FOR THE TOWER

"WELCOME, O KING!"

"A LARGESS! A LARGESS!"

"SHE WAS AT HIS SIDE"

"MY LIEGE, IT IS AN ILL TIME FOR DREAMING"

"SHE WAS MY MOTHER"

CORONATION DAY

"GATHERS UP THE LADY'S LONG TRAIN"

"TOM CANTY APPEARED"

"AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HIM"

"THE GREAT SEAL- FETCH IT HITHER"

"SIRE, THE SEAL IS NOT THERE"

"BETHINK THEE, MY KING"

"LONG LIVE THE TRUE KING!"

"TO CRACK NUTS WITH"

EDWARD AS KING

"HE STRETCHED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND"

"ARRESTED AS A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER"

"IT IS HIS RIGHT"

"STRIP THIS ROBBER"

"TOM ROSE AND KISSED THE KING´S HAND"

JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION.

Notes:

Originally published: The prince and the pauper: a tale for young people of all ages. New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1885.

ISBN:

1-58218-337-6

OCLC:

70769210