Read by John Greenman.
Mark Twain’s humor, sometimes blunt and sometimes subtle, presents a particular problem for an audio book. The narrator must simultaneously play both the straight man and the joker while balancing Twain’s characters between realistic and quirky. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain switches the place of Prince Edward of England with his look-alike double, a poor boy named Tom. In telling the story, Twain adapts his Midwestern humorist style to antiquated English. This combination of styles presents a further challenge to vocal interpretation, but reader John Greenman brings the listener into the London of 1547 with a wry tone and deft characterizations.
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