His fame as an American writer was immediate, especially after the publication of Innocents Abroad, a book that is still one of his most popular works. Then, after the acclaim of Roughing It, Twain gave up his career as a journalist-reporter and began writing seriously. Even though some of his letters and accounts about traveling in frontier America had been published earlier, Twain actually launched his literary career with the short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, published in 1865. When the Civil War began, Twain's allegiance tended to be somewhat southern due to his regional heritage, but his brother Orion convinced him to go West on an expedition, a trip which became the subject of a later work, Roughing It. Twain had once been a riverboat pilot for four years and during those times, he became familiar with all of the towns along the Mississippi River. Hoping to find his fortune, he conceived a wild scheme of getting rich in South America. Twain's father died when he was twelve years old and for the next ten years, he was an apprentice printer both in Hannibal and in New York City.
Although his family was not wealthy, he apparently had a happy childhood. Twain's father was a lawyer, but he was never quite successful, and so he dabbled in land speculation, hoping to become wealthy someday. And even though The Prince and the Pauper is not based on personal experience (it is set in sixteenth-century England), Twain uses the experiences of two young boys gradually losing their innocence, as he did in both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Petersburg), as well as the steamboats which passed through it daily likewise, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (written after The Prince and the Pauper), the various characters are based on types which Twain encountered both in his hometown and while working as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Two of his best-known novels typify this trait: in his Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain immortalized the sleepy little town of Hannibal, Missouri (the fictional St. Mark Twain's Prince and the Pauper is a popular story and a classic from American Literature.Īs one of America's first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910) usually wrote of things he knew about from firsthand experience. Each boy has strong misconception's of what the other boys life is like and series of educational and entertaining adventures play out as the boys grow more comfortable in both their real and assumed roles in life. Twain's popular novel chronicles the adventures of two young boys, a Prince and a Pauper, who exchange roles and stations in life. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER - AN ANALYSIS OF THE NOVEL
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