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portada A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Illustrated by
Language
English
Pages
432
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.4 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm
Weight
0.66 kg.
ISBN13
9781949997064

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (in English)

Mark Twain (Author) · Kim Iverson Headlee (Illustrated by) · Pendragon Cove Press · Paperback

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (in English) - Mark Twain

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Synopsis "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (in English)"

In 1879, Colt Arms Factory superintendent Hank Morgan gets a crowbar to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's England of AD 528, replete with steel-plated knights, hefty horses, blushing ladies, vast castles, and a great oaken table the shape and size of a circus ring. Under this charming veneer roils a cesspit of slavery, superstition, criminal injustices legally wrought by Church as well as State, and hopeless despair. Whatever is an epitome of Yankee practicality and American sensibilities to do? Why, conquer the kingdom, of course, and drag it kicking and screaming into the nineteenth century. "If you only know the various comic-book and film adaptations of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, you're liable to imagine the book as a laugh riot, an exercise in anachronistic fun. Knights on bicycles! Knights in armor playing baseball! A newspaper named The Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano! In fact, Twain's 1889 novel is seldom what we'd call funny. Instead, it's more the literary equivalent of the Fourth of July--a farrago of politics, preaching and fireworks." The Washington Post Includes illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard created for the original 1889 edition.
Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, más conocido como Mark Twain, ha pasado a la historia de la literatura gracias al ingenio, humor y picardía que destila su obra. A menudo considerado el Dickens estadounidense, Twain fue periodista, tipógrafo, escritor y, sobre todo, un aventurero incansable. Su sed de aventuras lo llevó en un largo periplo lleno de experiencias: fue aprendiz de piloto, buscó fortuna en las minas de plata, recorrió el mundo dando conferencias y fue nombrado doctor honoris causa por la universidad de Oxford. Todo ello lo inspiró para empezar a escribir pequeños cuadernos de viaje que publicaba en la prensa. Se calcula que llegó a escribir más de 500 obras, entre las que destacan _Las aventuras de Huckelberry Finn_ y _Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer_: dos novelas en las que Twain evoca una infancia inocente y feliz, en la que brillan la ilusión y la rebeldía que preceden a la edad adulta. Mark Twain nació durante una de las apariciones del cometa Halley, y predijo que “se marcharía con él”. Efectivamente, el autor nos dejó el 21 de abril de 1910, a la estela de una nueva visita del cometa. ‍
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