Yankee Twain

Twain, Mark; Edmund Reiss -Afterword. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York U. S. A.: Signet Classics, 1963.
Marfree, later prtg w/ biblio & excellent Edmund Reiss afterword; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 334 pages; \nFrom School Library Jour Grade 5 Up-While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of his enduring classics during the years he lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He had come a long way from Hannibal when he focused his irreverent humor on medieval tales, and wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The hit on the head that sent protagonist Hank Morgan back through 13 centuries did not affect his natural resourcefulness. Using his knowledge of an upcoming eclipse, Hank escapes a death sentence, and secures an important position at court. Gradually, he introduces 19th century technology so the clever Morgan soon has an easy life. That does not stop him from making disparaging, tongue-in-cheek remarks about the inequalities and imperfections of life in Camelot. Twain weaves many of the well-known Arthurian characters into his story, and he includes a pitched battle between Morgan's men and the nobility... Barbara Wysocki, Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT Copyright 2001 Reed. \nSynopsis\nA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court involves time travel, as a nineteenth century man finds himself in sixth century England after suffering a head injury. He finds social and political conditions there just as oppressive as the society he has just left behind. Forward-looking in his technological ideas, Twain was always entranced by gadgets, enabling the Yankee to establish some amenities in King Arthur's world not previously known to him. Though Twain is acerbic in his criticism of technology that is inhumanely developed and applied, he also celebrates the American virtue of self-reliant ingenuity in countering the pretensions of medieval monarchy. Not surprisingly, his previously receptive English readership was not warm toward this book, and American readers who preferred his lighter touch in Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were dismayed as well.. 0451510739.

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Segriff, Larry; Gorman, Ed, & Greenberg, Martin H. (ed) ...Jane Yolen, Stephen R. Donaldson, Henry Slesar, Bruce Coville, Bernard Malamud, Charles de Lint, Edgar Pangborn, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Kate Wilhelm, Howard Fast, Robert Silverberg, Leo Tolstoy: An Anthology of Angels --The Angel Was a Yankee, The Big Sky, Angel's Egg, The Last Trump, Unworthy of the Angel, The Penalty, The Box, Angel Levine, Angelica, Your Soul Comes C. O. D., A Plethora of Angels, Alfred, What Men Live By, Basileus, ++++ New York Glorya Hale Books 1996
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-----Green cloth with gilt on spine, 245 pages, headband, no names, tight square and clean, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "...is a collection of 17 stories by well-known writers who tell of winged messengers and their mysterious, magical, and sometimes startling encounters on earth." Contents include: The Angel Was a Yankee by Stephen Vincent Benet / The Big Sky by Charles de Lint / Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn / The Last Trump by Isaac Asimov / Basileus by Robert Silverberg / What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy / Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain / And the Angels Sing by Kae Wilhelm / Alfred by Lisa Goldstein / The General Zapped An Angel by Howard Fast / A Plethora of Angels by Robert Sampson / Your Soul Comes C. O. D. by Mack Reynolds / Angelica by Jane Yolen / Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud / The Box by Bruce Coville / The Penalty by Henry Slesar / Unworthy of the Angel by Stepen R. Donaldson. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock phtoto First Edition First Printing NF Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: ANGELS BODY MIND SPIRIT GUIDES, An Anthology of Angels --The Angel Was a Yankee, The Big Sky, Angel's Egg, The Last Trump, Unworthy of the Angel, The Penalty, The Box, Angel Levine, Angelica, Your Soul Comes C. O. D., A Plethora of Angels, Alfred, What Men Live By, Basileus, ++++, Segriff, Larry; Gorman, Ed, & Greenberg, Martin H. (ed) ...Jane Yolen, Stephen R. Donaldson, Henry Slesar, Bruce Coville, Bernard Malamud, Charles de Lint, Edgar Pangborn, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain, Kate Wilhelm, Howard Fast, Robert Silverberg, Leo , -----Green cloth with gilt on spine, 245 pages, headband, no names, tight square and clean, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "...is a collection of 17 stories by well-known writers who tell of winged messengers and their mysterious, magical, and sometimes startling encounters on earth." Contents include: The Angel Was a Yankee by Stephen Vincent Benet / The Big Sky by Charles de Lint / Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn / The Last Trump by Isaac Asimov / Basileus by Robert Silverberg / What Men Live By by Leo Tolstoy / Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain / And the Angels Sing by Kae Wilhelm / Alfred by Lisa Goldstein / The General Zapped An Angel by Howard Fast / A Plethora of Angels by Robert Sampson / Your Soul Comes C. O. D. by Mack Reynolds / Angelica by Jane Yolen / Angel Levine by Bernard Malamud / The Box by Bruce Coville / The Penalty by Henry Slesar / Unworthy of the Angel by Stepen R. Donaldson.. Glorya Hale Books Religion]

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Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, April 2008 ISBN: 9780199540587

Sofort lieferbar! Mängelexemplar in akzeptablem Zustand (Buch gestaucht). Rechnung mit MwSt. Taschenbuch, 400 Seiten, 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'.

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Twain, Mark: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Signet Classics April 1, 1963 ISBN: 0451514602
,,While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of his enduring classics during the years he lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He had come a long way from Hannibal when he focused his irreverent humor on medieval tales, and wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The hit on the head that sent protagonist Hank Morgan back through 13 centuries did not affect his natural resourcefulness. Using his knowledge of an upcoming eclipse, Hank escapes a death sentence, and secures an important position at court. Gradually, he introduces 19th century technology so the clever Morgan soon has an easy life. That does not stop him from making disparaging, tongue-in-cheek remarks about the inequalities and imperfections of life in Camelot. Twain weaves many of the well-known Arthurian characters into his story, and he includes a pitched battle between Morgan's men and the nobility.

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of his enduring classics during the years he lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He had come a long way from Hannibal when he focused his irreverent humor on medieval tales, and wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The hit on the head that sent protagonist Hank Morgan back through 13 centuries did not affect his natural resourcefulness. Using his knowledge of an upcoming eclipse, Hank escapes a death sentence, and secures an important position at court. Gradually, he introduces 19th century technology so the clever Morgan soon has an easy life. That does not stop him from making disparaging, tongue-in-cheek remarks about the inequalities and imperfections of life in Camelot. Twain weaves many of the well-known Arthurian characters into his story, and he includes a pitched battle between Morgan's men and the nobility.

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