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.
關於作者：
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.”
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