A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain , was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others. Henry B. Wonham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tale and Charles W. Chesnutt, A Study of the Short Fiction and editor of Criticism and the Color Line . Klappentext This Norton Critical Edition includes: . The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company. . All 241 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin and Camelot as well as his deep interest in time travel, technology and political satire. . Five contemporary critical assessments from American and British sources along with seven recent essays on the novel's major themes. . A Compositional Chronology and Selected Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Twain, Henry B. Wonham, Twain Mark
• Assisted by: Henry B. (University of Oregon) Wonham (Editor), Henry B. Wonham (Editor), Wonham Henry B. (Editor), Henry B Wonham (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.02.2018
• Subject: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780393284171
• ISBN: 978-0-393-28417-1
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Fiction companions, United States of America, USA, Literature: history and criticism, Classic fiction: general and literary, Fiction companion works