A prince and a pauper, double identical, are known and are suddenly placed on paper each other; none of them are believed when they try to amend the confusion; both are driven by unexpected until everyone learns a valuable lesson ways. The Prince and the Pauper was published in 1881 when Mark Twain was 46 years old and at the peak of his career. Very different from his other works. Set in the sixteenth century, with great attention to historical detail, it has the grace, charm and irrational violence common in ancient folktales. The decision Twain locate your story in place and real date with a real king as its central character, she had its consequences: he must use great ingenuity to match his story without damaging your argument or our sense of history. In the quest to achieve this, download his criticism against the laws, ignorance, superstition and injustice of the time. By placing the work during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI gets satirize the Court and at the same time, raise a moral according to their time.