A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Twain ; original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard ; edited by Bernard L. Stein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781631503321
• Autore: Twain Mark <1835-1910.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, [2011], c1983
• ISBN: 1-283-28386-7; 9786613283863; 0-520-94807-6
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (504 p.)
• Collana: [Mark Twain library ; ; 4]
• Altri autori (Persone): BeardDaniel Carter <1850-1941.>; SteinBernard L
• Disciplina: 813.4
• Soggetti: Knights and knighthood - Great Britain; Americans - Great Britain; Arthurian romances; Time travel; Fantasy fiction; Great Britain Fiction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reprint. Originally published: 1983.; "A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- Preface -- A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT -- A WORD OF EXPLANAION -- CHAPTER 1. Camelot -- CHAPTER 2. King Arthur's Court -- CHAPTER 3. Knights of the Table Round -- CHAPTER 4. Sir Dinadan the Humorist -- CHAPTER 5. An Jnspiration -- CHAPTER 6. The Eclipse -- CHAPTER 7. Merlin's Tower -- CHAPTER 8. The Boss -- CHAPTER 9. The Journament -- CHAPTER 10. Beginnings of Civilization -- CHAPTER 11. The Yankee in Search of Adventures -- CHAPTER 12. Slow Torture -- CHAPTER 13. Freemen! -- CHAPTER 14. "Defend 'Thee, Lord!" -- CHAPTER 15. Sandy's Tale -- CHAPTER 16. Morgan le Fay -- CHAPTER 17. A Royal Banquet -- CHAPTER 18. In the Queen's Dungeons -- CHAPTER 19. Knight -Errantry as a Trade -- CHAPTER 20. ; The Ogre's Castle -- CHAPTER 21. The Pilgrims -- CHAPTER 22. The Holy Fountain -- CHAPTER 23. Restoration of the Fountain -- CHAPTER 24. A Rival Magician -- CHAPTER 25. A Competitive Examination -- CHAPTER 26. The First Newspaper -- CHAPTER 27. The Yankee and the King Travel Jncognito -- CHAPTER 28. Drilling the King -- CHAPTER 29. The Small-Pox Hut -- CHAPTER 30. The Tragedy of the Manor House -- CHAPTER 31. Marco -- CHAPTER 32. Dowley's Humiliation -- CHAPTER 33. Sixth-Century Political Economy -- CHAPTER 34. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves -- CHAPTER 35. A Pitiful Incident -- CHAPTER 36. An Encounter in the Dark -- CHAPTER 37. An Awful Predicament -- CHAPTER 38. Sir Launcelot and Xnights to the Rescue -- CHAPTER 39. The Yankee's Fight with the Knights -- CHAPTER 40. Three years Later -- CHAPTER 41. The Interdict -- CHAPTER 42. War! -- CHAPTER 43. The Battle of the Sand-Belt
• Sommario/riassunto: A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race." The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks." And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss," he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.