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開本：32開 紙張：膠版紙 包裝：平裝 是否套裝：否 國際標準書號ISBN：9780553211436 作者：Mark 出版社：Random 出版時間：2011年12月
" 內容簡介 This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential
self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of
Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century
engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past
and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias,
destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s
faith in scientific and social progress.
A central document in American intellectual history, A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilarious
comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a
utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one
of America’s greatest writers could pen. 作者簡介 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 HuckleberryFinn (1855), he was acknowledged by the literary establishmentas one of the 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), as though the writer in him could see the dangers theinvestor in him was blind to.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.
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.
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.” 目錄 Preface
A Word of Explanation
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12Preface
A Word of Explanation
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 7
CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 12
CHAPTER 13
CHAPTER 14
CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 16
CHAPTER 17
CHAPTER 18
CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 20
CHAPTER 21
CHAPTER 22
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 26
CHAPTER 27
CHAPTER 28
CHAPTER 29
CHAPTER 30
CHAPTER 31
CHAPTER 32
CHAPTER 33
CHAPTER 34
CHAPTER 35
CHAPTER 36
CHAPTER 37
CHAPTER 38
CHAPTER 39
CHAPTER 40
CHAPTER 41
CHAPTER 42
CHAPTER 43
CHAPTER 44
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