A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192839020 ISBN 13: 9780192839022

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

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."

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This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and beneficent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era's faith in scientific and social progress.
A central document in American intellectual history, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America's greatest writers could pen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0192839020
• ISBN 13: 9780192839022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Inge M. Thomas