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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court
Mark Twain
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Paperback. The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to boss the whole country inside of three weeks. And so he does. Emerging as The Boss, he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results. Illustrator(s): Beard, Daniel Carter. Editor(s): Stein, Bernard L. Series: Mark Twain Library. Num Pages: 504 pages, 222 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 546.
"A Connecticut Yankee" is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race". The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks". And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss", he embarks on ... Read more
"A Connecticut Yankee" is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race". The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks". And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss", he embarks on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
504
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Mark Twain Library
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520268166
SKU
V9780520268166
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