![]() ![]() Even sympathetic modern readers might agree with Walter Blair's succinct judgment that "this book was intended to appeal to children. Finally, The Prince and the Pauper was famously preferred by the Clemens women.1 History, of course, breeds distrust of the genteel tastes of the 1880s-including most emphatically Twain's own-and today Twain's romance of Tudor England remains on the children's shelves long after the liberation of Huck Finn, or, at most, it is accorded a minor place in its author's canon. ![]() William Dean Howells reviewed the novel enthusiastically, partly because he hoped the book would establish his friend's credentials as a moralist and the literary establishment of the Gilded Age likewise approved. ![]() Towers* Unlike many later readers, Mark Twain thought The Prince and the Pauper a "grave and stately" work, and even considered publishing it anonymously lest his reputation as a mere humorist obscure its profundity. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER: MARK TWAIN'S ONCE AND FUTURE KING Tom H. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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