Twain, Mark
(forfatter)
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court e-bog
202,96 DKK
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 "e;one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race."e; The Yankee, suddenly transported from h…
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 "e;one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race."e; 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 "e;boss the whole country inside of three weeks."e; And so he does. Emerging as "e;The Boss,"e; he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.
E-bog
202,96 DKK
Udgivet
14.02.2011
Længde
504 sider
Genrer
1KBB
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780520948075
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 "e;one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race."e; 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 "e;boss the whole country inside of three weeks."e; And so he does. Emerging as "e;The Boss,"e; he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.
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