A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Norton Critical Editions) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court This edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court reprints the text of the first American edition, approved by Clemens and published by his own company. Accompanying the text are thirteen of the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, many of which are caricatures of well-known figures of the day. Annotations point out significant textual problems and variants, as well as explaini
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 07 July 1982
- Format: Paperback 468 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: C 1800 To C 1900 | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Classics | Fantasy
- ISBN 13: 9780393951370 ISBN 10: 0393951375
- Sales rank: 461,186
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When A Connecticut Yankee in 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.'.
