the prince and the pauper puffin classics

So evanescent and unstable are men's works, in this world! - the late good king is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling.' '.they stepped upon London Bridge, in the midst of a writhing, struggling jam of howling and hurrahing people, whose beer-jolly faces stood out strongly in the glare from manifold torches - and at that instant the decaying head of some former duke or other grandee tumbled down between them, striking Hendon on the elbow and then bounding off among the hurrying confusion of feet. The world is made wrong kings should go to school to their own laws, at times, and so learn mercy.' But no matter - within the compass of a month thou shalt be free and more, the laws that have dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the statute books.

Why they did not use a dog or a plumber seems strange but all the ways of royalty are strange.' '.when the office of Taster had its perils, and was not a grandeur to be desired. It is a novel set in London and Dickensian in style, but it has an American message at its core. It is arbitrary and corruptible, he is pointing out, and hereditary power for the few while many suffer is wrong. In putting royalty in the context of the 16th century and its way of life - which included many examples of needless violence and cruel torture, ignorant superstition, and fundamental unfairness - Twain shows it as outmoded as all of those things. There is an interesting undercurrent in the book, for while Twain mocks royalty overtly in scenes such as one with the attendants passing the king's clothes one by one down to him through a long line like a fire brigade, he also does this more subtly. Show More Places' with Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd :-).

The prince and the pauper puffin classics