The Prince and the Pauper is a novel featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens under the pen name Mark Twain in 1881. Tom Canty (youngest son of a family living with the dregs of society in Offal Court) has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Ro
