Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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Példány állapota: jó
Kiadó: Reader's Digest
Kiadás éve: 1984
ISBN: 0895771853
Nyelv: angol
Oldalak száma: 334

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is one of the first descriptions of a time traveling that was published before Herbert Wells. An ordinary Yankee from Connecticut during a drunken fight was hit on the head so hard that he came to consciousness and found himself in the court of the King Arthur in the sixth century. A young adventurous man starts to reorganize a medieval legendary kingdom Logress, he “Americanizes” it to the maximum up to the industrial ХІХth century. Even a worshiping solitaire rotates a sewing machine which produces cheap “saint” shirts. But many people are not happy with this situation, so the Yankees declare the war…