 The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The story of two boys (or girls)--one rich, one poor--exchanging places has become so familiar that we forget that the original tale was conceived, and brilliantly executed, by Mark Twain. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER is a comic novel, an adventure novel, an historic novel--and a compassionate moral novel. It is chiefly by way of the dark paths through London on which the ragged, vagabond prince must walk, experiencing a smidgin of the hardscrabble, miserable lives lived by the majority of the King's subjects that Twain not only teaches moral compassion to the prince but teaches the same to his readers. As E. L. Doctorow remarked, "Twain was enough a genius to build morality into his books with humor and wit--and in the case of The Prince and the Pauper--wonderful plotting." Somewhat overlooked nowadays, this is among Mark Twain's finest works.
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