Twain, Mark

Berkeley. 2011. University of California Press. Uncorrected Page Proofs. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520270015. Foreword and notes by Victor Fischer and Michael B. Frank, Text established by Victor Fischer, with Original Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, John J. Harley, and L. S. Ipsen. Mark Twain Library, 5. 191 b/w illustrations. 341 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature . FROM THE PUBLISHER - What am I writing? A historical tale of 300 years ago, simply for the love of it.' Mark Twain's 'tale' became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. Intricately plotted, it was intended to have the feel of history even though it was only the stuff of legend. Previous edition published 2002 (978-0-520-05108-9). 'Handsome, readable and full of surprises…the American classics that come to us from the Mark Twain Library are simply superb.' - Los Angeles Times. 'The Mark Twain Project and the University of California Press are reuniting Samuel Clemens's texts with the essential illustrations he commissioned for them, and the results are splendid: may the Twain never again be sundered!' - Vanity Fair. inventory #19525 ISBN: 9780520270015.