Résultats pour "Mark James" dans Récits initiatiques

Jake Trout, age 30, returns to his hometown for his famous father’s funeral. Jake left home immediately after high school for college to escape his father’s literary name. Now that he has finally returned home and begins reviewing his father’s estate, he learns his father was more than a literary superstar.

In this classic Twain tale, a poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives. Tom Canty is a young man from a laboring family who bears a striking resemblance to Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII and heir to his throne. Tom and Edward meet by chance, and they decide to exchange places briefly, as a lark; Edward will get to live as an ordinary boy, and Tom will enjoy the perks of royalty. But the two are separated before they can let everyone in on the joke, and Tom discovers as he pretends to be Price Edward that the castle is awash in corruption.