The Prince and the Pauper. Марк Твен
Читать онлайн книгу.
"u947256be-16ef-5672-b7d3-7485a25bb108">
THE PRINCE
AND THE PAUPER
Mark Twain
Harper Press
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
This edition published 2011
A catalogue record for this book is available from the
British Library
Life & Times section by Gerard Cheshire
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from
Collins English Dictionary
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN: 9780008156152
Ebook edition © MAY 2012 ISBN 9780007477470
Version: 2015-12-22
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 The Birth of the Prince and the Pauper
Chapter 3 Tom’s Meeting with the Prince
Chapter 4 The Prince’s Troubles Begin
Chapter 6 Tom Receives Instructions
Chapter 7 Tom’s First Royal Dinner
Chapter 8 The Question of the Seal
Chapter 10 The Prince in the Toils
Chapter 12 The Prince and His Deliverer
Chapter 13 The Disappearance of the Prince
Chapter 14 “Le Roi Est Mort—Vive Le Roi”
Chapter 18 The Prince with the Tramps
Chapter 19 The Prince with the Peasants
Chapter 20 The Prince and the Hermit
Chapter 21 Hendon to the Rescue
Chapter 22 A Victim of Treachery
Chapter 23 The Prince a Prisoner
Chapter 31 The Recognition Procession
Chapter 34 Conclusion: Justice and Retribution
Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
CHAPTER 1 The Birth of the Prince and the Pauper
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another