A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. In his introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how A Connecticut Yankee develops from comedy to tragedy and so into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for new generations of 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'.

ISBN 0199540586   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199540587 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 279 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192839022 Publication date 17 Apr 2008   Height (mm) 196 Illustrator Daniel Carter Beard   Width (mm) 129 Library of Congress PS   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 813.4   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9781931056489 Pages 400

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