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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (World's Classics)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - World's Classics Author:Mark Twain When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel — that remains a major literary and cultural text for... more » generations of new 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."« less
Mark Twain. What else is there to say? This book takes you on an adventure that is of course extremely well written, funny, sarcastic, an observation of human nature both then and just as applicably, now.