The prince and the pauper

• Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.>
• Pubblicazione: Scituate, Mass., : Digital Scanning, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Adventure stories
• Note generali: Originally published: The prince and the pauper: a tale for young people of all ages. New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1885.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER I . THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER -- CHAPTER II . TOMS EARLY LIFE -- CHAPTER III. TOM'S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE -- CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCE'S TROUBLES BEGIN -- CHAPTER V . TOM AS A PATRICIAN -- CHAPTER VI. TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS -- CHAPTER VII. TOM'S FIRST ROYAL DINNER -- CHAPTER VIII. THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL -- CHAPTER IX . THE RIVER PAGEANT -- CHAPTER X . THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS -- CHAPTER XI. AT GUILD HALL -- CHAPTER XII. THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER -- CHAPTER XIII. THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE -- CHAPTER XIV. "LE ROI EST MORT-VIVE LE ROI" -- CHAPTER XV. TOM AS KING -- CHAPTER XVI. THE STATE DINNER -- CHAPTER XVII. FOO-FOO THE FIRST -- CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS -- CHAPTER XIX. THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS -- CHAPTER XX. THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT -- CHAPTER XXI. HENDON TO THE RESCUE -- CHAPTER XXII. A VICTIM OF TREACHERY -- CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRINCE A PRISONER -- CHAPTER XXIV. THE ESCAPE -- CHAPTER XXV. HENDON HALL -- CHAPTER XXVI. DISOWNED -- CHAPTER XXVII. IN PRISON -- CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SACRIFICE -- CHAPTER XXIX. TO LONDON -- CHAPTER XXX. TOM'S PROGRESS -- CHAPTER XXXI. THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION -- CHAPTER XXXII. CORONATION DAY -- CHAPTER XXXIII. EDWARD AS KING -- CONCLUSION - JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION -- NOTES -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. -- THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece) -- THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER (half-title) -- "SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES" -- TOM'S EARLY LIFE -- OFFAL COURT -- "WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST" -- "HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST'S BOOKS" -- "SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED" -- "BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM" -- "LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES" -- TOM'S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE -- "AT TEMPLE BAR" -- "LET HIM IN!" -- "HOW OLD BE THESE?" -- "DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS" -- "I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!" -- THE PRINCE'S TROUBLES BEGIN. ; "SET UPON BY DOGS" -- "A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM" -- TOM AS A PATRICIAN -- "NEXT HE DREW THE SWORD" -- "RESOLVED TO FLY" -- "THE BOY WAS ON HIS KNEES" -- "GREAT NOBLES WALKED UPON EACH SIDE OF HIM" -- "HE DROPPED UPON HIS KNEES" -- "HE TURNED WITH JOYFUL FACE" -- "THE PHYSICIAN BOWED LOW" -- "THE KING FELL BACKUP ON HIS COUCH" -- "IS THIS MAN TO LIVE FOREVER?" -- TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS -- "PRITHEE, INSIST NOT" -- "THE LORD ST. JOHN MADE REVERENCE". -- HERTFORD AND THE PRINCESSES -- "SHE MADE REVERENCE" -- "OFFERED IT TO HIM ON A GOLDEN SALVER" -- "THEY MUSED A WHILE" -- "PEACE, MY LORD, THOU UTTEREST TREASON!" -- "HE BEGAN TO PACE THE FLOOR" -- TOM'S FIRST ROYAL DINNER -- "FASTENED A NAPKIN ABOUT HIS NECK" -- "TOM ATE WITH HIS FINGERS" -- "HE GRAVELY TOOK A DRAUGHT" -- "TOM PUT ON THE GREAVES" -- THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL -- "THE ATTENDANT SEASED HIM BACK UPON HIS PILLOWS". -- THE RIVER PAGEANT -- "A TROOP OF HALBERDIERS APPEARED IN THE GATEWAY" -- "TOM CANTY STEPPED INTO VIEW" -- THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS -- "A DIM FORM SANK TO THE GROUND" -- "WHO ART THOU?" -- "SENT HIM STAGGERING INTO GOOD WIFE CANTY'S ARMS" -- "SHE BENT HEEDFULLY AND WARILY OVER HIM" -- "THE PRINCE SPRANG UP" -- "HURRIED HIM ALONG THE DARKWAY" -- "HE WASTED NO TIME" -- AT GUILDHALL -- "A RICH CANOPY OF STATE" -- "BEGAN TO LAY ABOUT HIM" -- "LONG LIVE THE KING!" -- THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER -- "OUR FRIENDS THREADED THEIR WAY" -- "OBJECT LESSONS" IN ENGLISH HISTORY -- "JOHN CANTY MOVED OFF" -- "SMOOTHING BACK THE TANGLED CURLS" -- "PRITHEE, POUR THE WATER" -- "GO ON- TELL ME THY STORY" -- "THOU HAST BEEN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED" -- "HE DROPPED ON ONE KNEE" -- "RISE, SIR MILES HENDON, BARONET" -- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE -- "HE DROPPED ASLEEP" -- "THESE BE VERY GOOD AND SOUND" -- "EXPLAIN, THOU LIMB OF SATAN" -- "HENDON FOLLOWED AFTER HIM" -- "LE ROI EST MORT- VIVE LE ROI". ; "WILT DEIGN TO DELIVER THY COMMANDS?" -- "THE FIRST LORD OF THE BEDCHAMBER RECEIVED THE HOSE" -- "A SECRETARY OF STATE PRESENTED AN ORDER" -- "THE BOY ROSE, AND STOOD AT GRACEFUL EASE" -- "'TIS I THAT TAKE THEM" -- "IF YOUR MAJESTY WILL BUT TAX YOUR MEMORY" -- TOM AS KING -- "TOM HAD WANDERED TO A WINDOW" -- "TOM SCANNED THE PRISONERS" -- "LET THE PRISONER GO FREE!" -- "WHAT IS IT THAT THESE HAVE DONE?" -- "SEVERAL OLD HEADS NODDED THEIR RECOGNITION" -- THE STATE DINNER -- "A GENTLEMAN BEARING A ROD" -- "THE CHANCELLOR BETWEEN TWO" -- "I THANK YE, MY GOOD PEOPLE" -- "HE MARCHED AWAY IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAGEANT" -- FOO-FOO THE FIRST -- "THE RUFFIAN FOLLOWED THEIR STEPS" -- "HE SEIZED A BILLET OF WOOD" -- "HE WAS SOON ABSORBED IN THINKING" -- "A GRIM AND UNSIGHTLY PICTURE" -- "THEY ROARED OUT A ROLLICKING DITTY" -- "WHILST THE FLAMES LICKED UPWARDS" -- "THEY WERE WHIPPED AT THE CART'S TAIL" -- "THOU SHALT NOT" -- "KNOCKING HOBBS DOWN" -- 'THRONE HIM" -- THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS -- "THE TROOP OF VAGABONDS SET FORWARD" -- "THEY THREW BONES AND VEGETABLES" -- "BEGAN TO WRITHE AND WALLOW IN THE DIRT" -- "THE KING FLED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION" -- "HE STUMBLED ALONG" -- "WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WARM ROPE" -- "CUDDLED UP TO THE CALF" -- THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS -- "TOOK A GOOD SATISFYING STARE" -- "THE CHILDREN'S MOTHER RECEIVED THE KING KINDLY" -- "BROUGHT THE KING OUT OF HIS DREAMS" -- "GAVE HIM A BUTCHER KNIFE TO GRIND" -- THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT -- "HE TURNED AND DESCRIED TWO FIGURES" -- "THE KING ENTERED AND PAUSED" -- "I WILL TELL YOU A SECRET" -- "CHATTING PLEASANTLY ALL THE TIME" -- "DREW HIS THUMB ALONG THE EDGE" -- "THE NEXT MOMENT THEY WERE BOUND" -- HENDON TO THE RESCUE -- "SUNK UPON HIS KNEES, HIS KNIFE IN HAND" -- "GOD MADE EVERY CREATURE BUT YOU!" -- "THE FETTERED LITTLE KING" -- A VICTIM OF TREACHERY -- "HUGO STOOD NO CHANCE". ; "HUGO BOUND THE POULTICE TIGHT AND FAST" -- "TARRY HERE TILL I COME AGAIN" -- "THE KING SPRANG TO HIS DELIVERER'S SIDE" -- THE PRINCE A PRISONER -- "GENTLY, GOOD FRIEND" -- "SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET" -- THE ESCAPE -- "THE PIG MAY COST THY NECK, MAN" -- "BEAR ME UP, BEAR ME UP, SWEET SIR!" -- HENDON HALL -- "JOGGING EASTWARD ON SORRY STEEDS" -- "THERE IS THE VILLAGE, MY PRINCE!" -- "'EMBRACE ME, HUGH, 'HE CRIED" -- "HUGH PUT UP HIS HAND IN DISSENT" -- "A BEAUTIFUL LADY RICHLY CLOTHED, FOLLOWED HUGH" -- "HUGH WAS PINNED TO THE WALL" -- DISOWNED -- "OBEY, AND HAVE NO FEAR" -- "AM I MILES HENDON?" -- IN PRISON -- "CHAINED IN A LARGE ROOM" -- "THE OLD MAN LOOKED HENDON OVER" -- "INFORMATION DELIVERED IN A LOW VOICE" -- "THE KING!" HE CRIED. "WHAT KING?" -- "TWO WOMEN CHAINED TO POSTS" -- "TORN AWAY BY THE OFFICERS" -- "THE KING WAS FURIOUS" -- THE SACRIFICE -- "HE CONFRONTED THE OFFICER IN CHARGE" -- "WHILE THE LASH WAS APPLIED, THE POOR KING TURNED AWAY HIS FACE" -- "SIR HUGH SPURRED AWAY" -- TO LONDON -- "HENDON MOUNTED AND RODE OFF WITH THE KING" -- "IN THE MIDST OF A JAM OF HOWLING PEOPLE" -- TOM'S PROGRESS -- "TO KISS HIS HAND AT PARTING" -- "COMMANDED HER TO GO TO HER CLOSET" -- THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION -- THE START FOR THE TOWER -- "WELCOME, O KING!" -- "A LARGESS! A LARGESS!" -- "SHE WAS AT HIS SIDE" -- "MY LIEGE, IT IS AN ILL TIME FOR DREAMING" -- "SHE WAS MY MOTHER" -- CORONATION DAY -- "GATHERS UP THE LADY'S LONG TRAIN" -- "TOM CANTY APPEARED" -- "AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HIM" -- "THE GREAT SEAL- FETCH IT HITHER" -- "SIRE, THE SEAL IS NOT THERE" -- "BETHINK THEE, MY KING" -- "LONG LIVE THE TRUE KING!" -- "TO CRACK NUTS WITH" -- EDWARD AS KING -- "HE STRETCHED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND" -- "ARRESTED AS A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER" -- "IT IS HIS RIGHT" -- "STRIP THIS ROBBER" -- "TOM ROSE AND KISSED THE KING´S HAND" -- JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION.
• Titolo autorizzato: Prince and the pauper
• ISBN: 1-58218-337-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823141103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II