A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Twain, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0451529588 ISBN 13: 9780451529589

Casa editrice: Signet, 2004

Riassunto

Featuring a new introduction and afterword, this classic social satire follows Yankee Hank Morgan after a blow to the head in nineteenth-century Connecticut transports him to 528 A.D., where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom. Reprint.

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“Twain is the funniest literary American writer...[I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him.”—George Saunders

L'autore:

Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental—and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

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• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0451529588
• ISBN 13: 9780451529589
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384