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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author), Wonham, Henry B. (Editor)

ISBN: 0393284174 ISBN-13: 9780393284171
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2018
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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2017054089

Lexile Measure: 1080 HL (High-Low)

Series: Norton Critical Editions

Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5" W x 8.3" L (1.30 lbs) 584 pages

Themes:
- Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453)

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company.
- All 220 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin, and Camelot as well as his deep interest in time travel, technology, and political satire.
- Five contemporary critical assessments from American and
- British sources along with seven recent essays on the novel's major themes.
- A Compositional Chronology and Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

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Contributor Bio(s): Twain, Mark: - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others.Wonham, Henry B.: - Henry B. Wonham is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Mark Twain and the Art of the Tale and Charles W. Chesnutt, A Study of the Short Fiction and editor of Criticism and the Color Line.Twain, Mark: - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), best known to the world by his pen-name Mark Twain, was an author and humorist, noted for his novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876, among many others.

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