The American Claimant and Other Stories and Sketches

by Mark Twain

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Published in 1892, this prince-and-the-pauper tale concerns the heir to a British earldom who spurns his title and wealth to live the life of the common man in America, and the American claimant to the earldom, a flighty inventor with a lovely if scatterbrained daughter who looks for nobility in all the wrong places.… (more)

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Published in 1892, this prince-and-the-pauper tale concerns the heir to a British earldom who spurns his title and wealth to live the life of the common man in America, and the American claimant to the earldom, a flighty inventor with a lovely if scatterbrained daughter who looks for nobility in all the wrong places.

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