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The Prince and the Pauper (1881) is a novel by Mark Twain. Set in the sixteenth century, it tells the story of two boys --Tom Canty, a London pauper, and Prince Edward, son of the great Henry VIII – who look identical and who, after a simple switch of clothing, are set on a path that they’d never believed was possible. About the Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as Mark Twain, was an American novelist and humourist. A prolific writer, he is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). His work, combining  humour, social criticism and the use of colloquial language, laid the foundations for a distinct American literature, which had not been present before his time.