A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Zusatztext one of Mark Twain's best comic novels and is still funny more than a century after it first appeared Informationen zum Autor M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. He has received awards from the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle for his contribution to the study of American humour and Mark Twain. Klappentext When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new 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." Zusammenfassung 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. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Mark, Mark Twain
• Assisted by: Daniel Carter Beard (Illustration), M. Thomas Inge (Editor), M. Thomas (Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities Inge (Editor), Inge M. Thomas (Editor), Thomas Inge (Editor), M Thomas Inge (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2008
• EAN: 9780199540587
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954058-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; World's classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; Oxford World's Classics; WORLD'S CLASSIC; World's classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: literary and general