The Prince and the Pauper

Pure Gold It is a seldom-enjoyed privilege to be favoured with a piece of writing so exquisitely eloquent in its championship and celebration of all that is good, merciful, compassionate, and worthy in the hearts of humankind; so potently rousing in its sincere condemnation of the despicable vices of pride, cruelty, deceit, and treachery; and so magnificently, impressively gifted in its penetration of the very depths, the most profound caverns, of the human soul. In The Prince and the Pauper we have the epitome of a literary and cultural treasure. *As a note: I was already reading this novel in a physical, rather massive Mark Twain collection, and I received a completely unexpected, very exciting surprise when I uncovered here a considerable selection of additional illustrations that I hadn't seen before! For me, already a firmly-established, enthusiastic Prince and the Pauper devotee, the development sparked by this discovery truly proved to be the icing on the delicious Tudor cake.