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Bibliography: Prince and the Pauper by Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
- Title
- Prince and the Pauper
- Author
- Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens)
- Date
- Genre
- fiction
- Note Source
- Home Monthly 5/1897
- Note Relating to Cather
- "I got a letter last week from a little boy just half-past seven who had just read Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He said: 'If there are any more books like them in the world, send them to me quick.' I had to humbly confess to him that if there were any others I had not the good fortune to know of them.... Certainly Mark Twain is much better when he writes of his Missouri boys than when he makes sickly romances about Joan of Arc. And certainly he never did a better piece of work than The Prince and the Pauper."
