A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court: A humorous satire by Mark Twain 9782382747315

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Автор: Twain Mark (Твен Марк)
Название: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court: A humorous satire by Mark Twain
ISBN: 9782382747315
Издательство: Les Prairies Numeriques
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ISBN-10: 2382747315
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 238
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 17.10.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 21.01 x 14.81 x 1.37 cm
Поставляется из: США
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthurs knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He attempts to modernize the past in order to make peoples lives better, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor. It is a satire of feudalism and monarchy that also celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values while questioning the ideals of capitalism and outcomes of the Industrial Revolution. It is among several works by Twain and his contemporaries that mark the transition from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era of socioeconomic discourse. The novel is a comedy that sees sixth-century England and its medieval culture through Hank Morgans view he is a nineteenth-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England where he meets King Arthur himself. Hank, who had an image of that time that had been colored over the years by romantic myths, takes on the task of analyzing the problems and sharing his knowledge from 1300 years in the future to try to modernize, Americanize, and improve the lives of the people

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