A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain Library)

Product DescriptionA 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.Daniel Carter Beard illustrated the first edition of Yankee in 1889, and Mark Twain praised his work as "better than the book-which is a good deal for me to say, I reckon." This Mark Twain Library edition reprints the text based on the author’s manuscript, all 221 of Beard’s illustrations, and the notes from the California scholarly edition.Review"Each additional volume reaffirms our faith and celebration in this splendid series." -- Nineteenth-Century Fiction"The Yankee is a jewel. Nobody will ever be able to read, much less teach, it without this book." -- American LiteratureAbout the AuthorThe Mark Twain Project is a major editorial and publishing program of The Bancroft Library. Its six resident editors are at work on a comprehensive scholarly edition of all of Mark Twain's private papers and published works. Twenty-three of an estimated seventy volumes in The Works and Papers of Mark Twain are currently available.
Author: Twain, Mark

Publisher: University of California Press

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0520235762

ISBN-13: 9780520235762