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 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."
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`one of Mark Twain's best comic novels and is still funny more than a century after it first appeared' Oxford Times
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M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. He has received awards from the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle for his contribution to the study of American humour and Mark Twain.
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This book is great. Owning a hard copy of my own, I looked into buying it for my Kindle, but was shocked at the sticker price. It is 7.16 here (as of December 26, 2011), but it can be had for free at Project Gutenberg. Which will I choose for my Kindle? No contest!
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Classic tale - Amazing it is from 1889,
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THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fair sir, thirteen centuries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Launcelot, King Arthur, Sir Kay, Sir Marhaus, Sir Sagramour, Sir Gareth, Sir Gawaine, Valley of Holiness, Sir Mordred, Round Table, Sandy's Tale, Established Church, The First Newspaper, Sir Boss, Sir Uwaine, The Yankee's Fight, Word of Explanation, Drilling the King, Sir Arthur, Sir Dinadan the Humorist, Knights of the Table Round, Restoration of the Fountain, Sir Ozana, Slow Torture, Holy Grail New!
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THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fair sir, thirteen centuries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Launcelot, King Arthur, Sir Kay, Sir Marhaus, Sir Sagramour, Sir Gareth, Sir Gawaine, Valley of Holiness, Sir Mordred, Round Table, Sandy's Tale, Established Church, The First Newspaper, Sir Boss, Sir Uwaine, The Yankee's Fight, Word of Explanation, Drilling the King, Sir Arthur, Sir Dinadan the Humorist, Knights of the Table Round, Restoration of the Fountain, Sir Ozana, Slow Torture, Holy Grail New!
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- History of American Literature by Reuben P. Halleck on page 268
- Printer's Devil: Mark Twain and the American Publishing Revolution by Bruce Michelson in Back Matter
- The Best of the Kenyon Review: Poetry, Stories and Essays by... by David Lynn on page 328
- Comics as Culture by M. Thomas Inge on page 135
- Reading the Text That Isn't There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Mike Davis in Back Matter
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