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THE HISTORICAL NOVELS OF MARK TWAIN - MARK TWAI...

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881 in Canada  before
its 1882 publication in the United States. Set in 1547  it tells the story of two young boys
who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty  a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal
Court off Pudding Lane in London  and Prince Edward  son of King Henry VIII. A Connecticut
Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain  originally published in book form
in 1896. The novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval
culture through the eyes of Hank Morgan  a 19th-century resident of Hartford  Connecticut  who
after a blow to the head  awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to
early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur. Personal Recollections of Joan
of Arc  published in 1896  is the remarkable story of the saint's life as told by the fictional
Sieur Louis de Conté  Joan's page and secretary  in the form of a memoir written in the
twilight of life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc 
accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military campaigns  and being
present at each of her three trials. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)  better known by
his pen name Mark Twain  was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer (1876) and its sequel  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)  the latter often called
the Great American Novel.

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