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版次：1
页数：465
字数：
印刷时间：2011年12月01日
开本：16开
纸张：胶版纸
包装：平装
是否套装：否
国际标准书号ISBN：9780375757808

作者:Mark Twain　著出版社:Random House US出版时间:2011年12月

内容简介

　　Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one of Twain's finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.

作者简介

　　Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one ofthe most exciting and adventuresome of literary lives. Raised inthe river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school atage twelve to seek work. He was successfully a journeyman printer,a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted Confederate soldier (for a fewweeks), and a prospector, miner, a reporter in the westernterritories. With the publication in 1865 of “The CelebratedJumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain gained national attentionas a frontier humorist, and with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1855), he was acknowledged by the literary establishment as one ofthe greatest writers America would ever produce.
　　In 1880 Twain began promoting and financing heavily the ill-fatedPaige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printingprocess fully automatic. This enterprise drained his energy andfunds for almost fifteen years, until it drove him to the brink ofbankruptcy. Ironically at the height of his naively optimisticinvolvement in his technological “wonder,” he published hissatirical A Connecticut Yankee in King’s Arthur’s Court (1889), asthough the writer in him could see the dangers the investor in himwas blind to.

<p>　　Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, led one of
the most exciting and adventuresome of literary lives. Raised in
the river town of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain had to leave school at
age twelve to seek work. He was successfully a journeyman printer,
a steamboat pilot, a halfhearted Confederate soldier (for a few
weeks), and a prospector, miner, a reporter in the western
territories. With the publication in 1865 of “The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain gained national attention
as a frontier humorist, and with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(1855), he was acknowledged by the literary establishment as one of
the greatest writers America would ever produce.<br />
　　In 1880 Twain began promoting and financing heavily the ill-fated
Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing
process fully automatic. This enterprise drained his energy and
funds for almost fifteen years, until it drove him to the brink of
bankruptcy. Ironically at the height of his naively optimistic
involvement in his technological “wonder,” he published his
satirical A Connecticut Yankee in King’s Arthur’s Court (1889), as
though the writer in him could see the dangers the investor in him
was blind to.<br />
　　Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and
financial failure, Mark Twain grew more and more pessimistic–an
outlook not alleviated by his natural skepticism and sarcasm.
Though his fame continued to widen. Twain spent his last years in
gloom and exasperation, writing fables about “the damned human
race.”</p>

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