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When Edward Tudor, Prince of Wales, crosses paths with his doppelganger, beggar Tom Canty, the two agree to swap clothes "for a jest". The joke goes rather too far when Tom is proclaimed king, while the real heir to the throne faces indignity and hardship in Mark Twain's delightful identity-switching tale, which exposes social injustice and the perils of judging people by their appearance.
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Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1935 in Missouri, USA. He trained and worked as a printer until 1857 when he became an apprentice pilot on the steamboats of the Mississippi River. After a brief spell as a miner in Nevada he took up journalism and began using the pen name Mark Twain. Some years of travelling and lecturing followed and
