A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] [William Safire]
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About This Item
New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. Mark Twain wrote A Connecticut Yankee after reading Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, exploring "a number of implicit parallels between Arthur's England and the American South: slavery; an agrarian economy which came into armed conflict with an industrial economy; a chivalric code which, Clemens said, was secondhand Walter Scott and kept the South mawkish, adolescent, verbose, and addicted to leatherheaded anachronisms like duels and tournaments. In both frameworks a civil war destroys the old order, and the Yankee has as acute a sense of loss as Mark Twain did" (Kaplan, 297).
Synopsis
The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written
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- Raptis Rare Books (US)
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- Title
- A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
- Author
- Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens] [William Safire]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles L. Webster and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court First Edition, Mark Twain First Edition
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