“The Prince and the Pauper” is the first and best-known novel by Mark Twain (1835—1910). The heroes of the book — an English prince and a pauper boy — exchange their roles and, to their delight, adjust themselves to new life circumstances, though not only pleasant moments fall on their lots. At the end of the novel, the main heroes realize that each man’s life has attractions and difficulties of their own, and only wise and praiseworthy deeds make a man truly happy.
