A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Paperback / softback
by Mark Twain
Edited by M. Thomas (Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities, Robert Emory Blackwell Professo Inge
Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises.
Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought.
The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Connecticut Yankee develops from comedy to tragedy and so into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for new generations of readers.
This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said `he not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts'.
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- Publication Date:17/04/2008
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:400 pages, line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199540587