The Prince and the Pauper

ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE

About the story.

Two boys meet in Tudor London and discover that their faces are astonishingly alike. Their lives could scarcely be more different: one has grown up with palace privileges, the other with poverty and the hazards of the street.

Mark Twain turns that resemblance into an adventure about identity, authority, and the difficulty of making people believe an inconvenient truth. Familiar surroundings become strange when a boy is treated as somebody else.