A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -  - 9780199540587

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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'.


EAN: 9780199540587
Editado por: Oxford University Press
Materia: Lecturas en inglés
Idioma: Castellano
Publicado el: 1 Enero 2008
Nº Edición: 1
Nº páginas: 400
Encuadernación: Rústica
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