The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc eBook by Mark Twain - 9788026804550 | Kobo Show more Show less This carefully crafted ebook: “The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc” contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain, originally published in book form in 1896.

The novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, published in 1896, is the remarkable story of the saint's life as told by the fictional Sieur Louis de Conté, Joan's page and secretary, in the form of a memoir written in the twilight of life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc, accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military campaigns, and being present at each of her three trials. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist.

He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Buy the eBook Historical romances : the prince and the pauper ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ; Personal recollections of Joan of Arc (Book, 1994) [WorldCat.org] Mark Twain ; [notes by Susan K. Harris]. Abstract: The prince and the pauper: When young Edward VI of England and Tom Canty, a poor boy who looks just like him, exchange places, each learns a valuable lesson about the other's very different station in life in sixteenth-century England. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

Personal recollections of Joan of Arc: Twain's most ambitious work is a fictional translation of Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, the one person who was with Joan during the three important stages of her life: as a visionary village peasant, as a military genius and as the defendant at her trial. Reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Tags Add tags for "Historical romances : the prince and the pauper ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ; Personal recollections of Joan of Arc". Be the first. Similar Items schema:datePublished "1994" ; schema:description "The prince and the pauper: When young Edward VI of England and Tom Canty, a poor boy who looks just like him, exchange places, each learns a valuable lesson about the other's very different station in life in sixteenth-century England. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court: A blow to the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

Personal recollections of Joan of Arc: Twain's most ambitious work is a fictional translation of Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, the one person who was with Joan during the three important stages of her life: as a visionary village peasant, as a military genius and as the defendant at her trial."@ en ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Books on Google Play A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ( 776) Description 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. My review 776 total Don Ford What are great book. The story within has always been a joy to visit and revisit during my numerous decades. Yasmin K Strange book Crazy book, some boring bits, some interesting. Generally nuts!! Andrew Oxford A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Clemens aka Twain deconstructs Camelot in this classic piece of American literature.

An easy read, we gather Twain's viewpoints on slavery, chivalry, and the church. His insights are still relevant in the 21st Century. velda truitt this book is a good one i would read it again. Cpl.Matthew Reyes 0341 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court" One of the few classics I've read and I'm beginning to truly love them. I intend to read more not just by Twain, Dickinson, Doyle. I want to read other authors that are not common names. Thank you Google for the chance to read some of these authors works free of charge. " HELL-CENTRAL"!!! Steve Leach Very entertaining! A classic Mark Twain story. I don't know why I have never read this book before now. User reviews Don Ford March 18, 2015 What are great book. The story within has always been a joy to visit and revisit during my numerous decades. Yasmin K June 15, 2015 Strange book Crazy book, some boring bits, some interesting. Generally nuts!!

Full Review Andrew Oxford June 12, 2015 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court Clemens aka Twain deconstructs Camelot in this classic piece of American literature. An easy read, we gather Twain's viewpoints on slavery, chivalry, and the church. His insights are still relevant in the 21st Century. velda truitt May 31, 2015 this book is a good one i would read it again. Full Review Cpl.Matthew Reyes 0341 May 27, 2015 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court" One of the few classics I've read and I'm beginning to truly love them. I intend to read more not just by Twain, Dickinson, Doyle. I want to read other authors that are not common names. Thank you Google for the chance to read some of these authors works free of charge. " HELL-CENTRAL"!!! Full Review Steve Leach May 13, 2015 Very entertaining! A classic Mark Twain story. I don't know why I have never read this book before now.

Darlene Faye May 11, 2015 Cool book. Nick Schaefer April 16, 2015 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Classic book. Charles Richardson April 11, 2015 Good read Good book that will twist ypur stomach Full Review Spencer Patrick March 24, 2015 A Wonderful Read Still on of my favorite classic reads. Even today, much of Mark Twain's humor and political opinion can be understood and enjoyed. Full Review Benjamin Upham June 22, 2015 An entertaining, amusing classic I highly recommend this book simply for the silliness of the narrative. It's one of the most entertaining, well-written novels I have ever read. Full Review Joanna Tellez March 17, 2015 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Fun read about a "Yankee" going back in time to King Arthur's Court. Read it in high school also loved it then. Chris Yates February 1, 2015 Twain's genius Funny, sad, nonsensical and full of meaning. A great story.

Edgar Buster January 12, 2015 Awesome Full Review Mitch Thomas December 29, 2014 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Fantasy about time travel without trying to explain the how of it. Excellent! Nancy Strobbe November 14, 2014 A connecticut yankee in king authur'S Court Very good book Full Review Muddy Valley October 24, 2014 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Loved it when I read it as a boy, and still do today after rereading it. As full of wise observations today, as when it was written. Danny Carter September 27, 2014 Best time travel novel Offers some interesting insight into American history by leaping through the narrative itself. Brian Eschner August 29, 2014 Always a great read - even the third time around!

Felix Danger August 12, 2014 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Full Review October 28, 2016 this book is stupid very little plotline and it talks in thee's and thou's and i hate it Thomas Wood October 4, 2016 Fantastic satire on culture and how humanity is so similar through the ages. Kevin Clements July 9, 2016 Not the best but a decent read. Paul Byrne May 6, 2016 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Full Review Mike Duree April 3, 2016 Great book, but... ... I didn't really care for the ending. Felt like it M.T. phoned it in. No real resolution to the story to be had in the last two chapters. It just sort of drops off at the climax. Disappointing. Still, a very good read. david goldberg January 31, 2016 Ha! Silly fun. A fine old yarn that really becomes fantastical towards the end.

Full Review Margaret Knutson January 8, 2016 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Watched movie many years ago. So enjoyed finally getting to read the book. Loveove the details. Juliana Lee January 7, 2016 Hilarious but with a sad ending and I never did like sad endings ;-( Steve Sparks November 19, 2015 Love the relevence to today A must read for everyone!!!! Classic and timeless Full Review Leah Hilton November 4, 2016 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Wonderfully entertaining and thought provoking! Who would have thought that Mark Twain would be so page turning good? Loved it! Full Review S P November 16, 2015 A great story told well Master story teller Mark Twain classic tale. Easy to read in small segments timeless novel Terry Brandon November 16, 2015 Worth reading, but not Huckleberry Finn.

Full Review Mark C November 8, 2015 Connecticut yankee Twain's insights into medieval thought show the advances that democracy and education brought about and make you thankful to be born in a time and place where 'Every man created free and equal 'has replaced the feudal system Peter Chen September 20, 2015 Old language hard to decipher at times, but great writing with imagination out of its time. Michael Hodges August 11, 2015 A great book that holds your attention from beginning to end. A must read. Virginio Mello July 25, 2015 Connecticut Yankee in king arthor's court Fun read Full Review Link Of Hyrule July 17, 2015 This book is great! I read it before my Junior year of high school for an American Author project, and I absolutely loved it! 5 stars isn't enough! James Kammin July 9, 2015 Loved it! Haven't read it in years and was glad to find it online.

Full Review Wd Dj June 23, 2015 Bad historical writing King Arthur was real but this misleads people into thinking there was ever some lame fictional place called 'Connecticut.' What kind of word is that anyway Mark Twain: Historical Romances | Library of America Library of America Back Mark Twain: Historical Romances Print Share Mark Twain : Historical Romances The Prince and the Pauper | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Edited by Susan Harris “Taken together, these three stories (particularly A Connecticut Yankee) provide a classic modern view of premodern society: its revulsion with medieval superstition and backwardness and, at the same time, a nostalgia for medieval grandeur coupled with doubts about modern ‘progress.’ And then there’s just the sheer fun of reading Mark Twain.” — First Things Overview Overview Save $110 when you buy this volume as part of The Complete Mark Twain Library—and pay in six monthly installments. In the three novels collected in this Library of America volume, Mark Twain turned his comic genius to a period that fascinated and repelled him in equal measure: medieval and Renaissance Europe.

This lost world of stately pomp and unspeakable cruelty, artistic splendor and abysmal ignorance—the seeming opposite of brashly optimistic, commercial, democratic 19th-century America—engaged Twain’s imagination, inspiring a children’s classic, and astonishing fantasy of comedy and violence, and an unusual fictional biography. Twain drew on his fascination with impersonation and the theme of the double in The Prince and the Pauper (1882), which brilliantly uses the device of identical boys from opposite ends of the social hierarchy to evoke the tumultuous contrasts of Henry VIII’s England. As the pauper Tom Canty is raised to the throne, while the rightful heir is cast out among thieves and beggars, Twain sustains one of his most compelling narratives. A perennial children’s favorite, the novel brings an impassioned American point of view to the injustices of traditional European society. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889) finds Twain in high satiric form. When hard-headed Yankee mechanic Hank Morgan is knocked out in a fight, he wakes up in Camelot in A.D.

528—and finds himself pitted against the medieval rituals and superstitions of King Arthur and his knights. In a hilarious burlesque of the age of chivalry and of its cult in the 19th-century American South, Twain demolishes knighthoods romantic aura to reveal a brutish, violent society beset by ignorance. But the comic mood gives way to a darker questioning of both ancient and modern society, culminating in an astonishing apocalyptic conclusion that questions both American progress and Yankee “ingenuity” as Camelot is undone by the introduction of advanced technology. “Taking into account … her origin, youth, sex, illiteracy, early environment, and the obstructing conditions under which she exploited her high gifts and made her conquest in the field and before the courts that tried her for her lifeshe is easily and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever known.” So Twain wrote of the heroine of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), his most elaborate work of historical reconstruction. A respectful and richly detailed chronicle, by turns admiring and indignant, Joan of Arc opens a fascinating window onto the moral imagination of America’s greatest comic writer.

Susan K. Harris, volume editor, is Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas and the author of Mark Twain’s Escape from Time. Mark Twain: Historical Romances is kept in print by a gift from James C. & Melissa A. March to the Guardians of American Letters Fund . Connecticut Yankee King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain - AbeBooks Connecticut Yankee King Arthurs Court by Mark Twain You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 2844 1 Search Within These Results: Bookseller Image CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne] TWAIN, Mark. Published by New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929 (1929) Used Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1929, 1929. 37 volumes, octavo. Recent green half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, light and dark brown morocco labels, marbled sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. An excellent set. Frontisportrait and illustrations throughout. The Stormfield edition.

Limited to 1024 numbered sets with a card signed by Twain tipped onto the limitation page. "It was Mark Twain's most cherished desire that a definitive and complete edition of his entire literary output be published." The Stormfield is a fine reprint of the Definitive Edition of 1922, and this set is very handsomely bound. Bookseller Inventory # 68661 Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens) Published by Charles L. Webster & Company, New York (1889) Used First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1889. Book Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Extraordinary copy with all three of the earliest issue points: "The S King" on p. 59, no damage to type on p. 72 and, most uncommon, the half-title is printed on the recto of the frontispiece. This copy with the geometric-designed end-papers. A lovely copy overall, easily Near Fine, with end-paper just starting to crack at the lower rear hinge, but holding well and without repair.

Top edge a trifle dusty and the pages over-opened at p. 320, otherwise bright and fresh. At the time of writing this description, no other copy is available with all three early issue points. "Most collectors are content with a copy with early states of pages 59 and 72, and any copy with the extremely rare half-title is coveted regardless of the other states." (Kevin MacDonnell, "Collecting Mark Twain.") One of the great humorist's classic works. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" follows the adventures of an engineer who's sent backwards in time to the Middle Ages - and the realm of King Arthur. Twain worked on the book in stops and starts in the 1880s, before finishing it in 1889. Strangely enough, along with some contemporary works by H.G. Wells and Edward Bellamy, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is considered one of the early works in the science fiction, "time-travel" genre. "?we feel that in this book our arch-humorist imparts more of his personal quality than in anything else he has done.

Here he is to the full the humorist, as we know him; but he is very much more? The delicious satire, the marvellous wit, the wild, free, fantastic humor are the colors of the tapestry, while the texture is a humanity that lives in every fibre. At every moment the scene amuses, but it is all the time an object-lesson in democracy. It makes us glad of our republic and our epoch; but it does not flatter us into a fond content with them" (William Dean Howells in the Atlantic). Near Fine. Bookseller Inventory # 1679 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo. 575 pp. plus a two-page publisher's advertisement. Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard. Original green cloth, yellow-green floral pattern end-papers. Page [i] blank and shows a small paper adhesion to the previous page, resulting in a small loss of material to [i]. BAL states that both forms (blank page and pages with fly-title) were published simultaneously.

The S-like ornament on page 59 is not present in this copy. Housed in a custom-made slip case of red morocco spine with gilt lettering and five raised bands; maroon cloth over cardboard. Weight is four lbs. This is an exceptionally fine copy, as pristine as the day it was first published. Probably this is the finest copy that will ever become available. Bookseller Inventory # L-562 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster and Company, New York, 1889. Original Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo. A bright first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in the original green cloth with white end papers imprinted in yellow-green floral pattern, fly-title on page , later state without S-like ornament between the two word caption on page 59 [BAL 3429]. Broken types on page 341.

Housed in custom made slipcase and box in Fine condition; Twain's tale of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, CT who awakens to find himself transported back in time to medieval England at the time of legendary King Arthur in AD 528. Hank uses his knowledge and Yankee ingenuity to advance the English society and secure a high position for himself, but later falls victim to modern society's own darker side. Bookseller Inventory # 13223 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: 1889. TWAIN, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurï¿½s Court [Salesmanï¿½s Dummy]. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. Slim octavo, original three-quarter (front cover) and full (rear cover) brown morocco, marbled endpapers (front) and patterned endpapers (rear), with original cloth front cover mounted to rear pastedown and morocco and sheep spines mounted to front pastedown.

$4200.Original salesmanï¿½s dummy for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurï¿½s Court, with engraved frontispiece portrait, select illustrations and excerpts, and samples of the morocco and sheep spines affixed to the front pastedown, and the gilt-decorated cloth cover and spine affixed to the rear pastedown.Salesmanï¿½s dummies (also called salesmanï¿½s samples or prospectuses) were meant to be taken door-to-door to show potential subscribers. This dummy features the three-quarter morocco binding as the front cover and the full, decorated morocco binding as the rear cover, with samples of the possible leather spines and the original pictorial cloth within, to easily show a potential customer all of the binding possibilities. The text consists of several sections of the book and a number of full-page illustrations. At the rear are two pages of advertisements and 15 leaves of ruled paper intended to be filled with orders (with the headings: "Subscribersï¿½ Names," "Residence," "Style of Binding" and "No. of Copies").

"The novel is a characteristic Twainian amalgam of fantasy and fun, observation and satire, that both amuses and provokes powerful reflection as it confronts the customs of olden times with the brash values of the New World" (Lacy, 478). This title is Twainï¿½s first collaboration with illustrator Dan Beard. "Since Twain enthusiastically approved every drawing in the novel, it should be read as a full collaboration between the author and artist" (LeMaster & Wilson, 64). See BAL 3429; Johnson, McBride, 124; MacDonnell, 48-49. Two subscribersï¿½ names neatly inked in on first sheet at rear.Near-fine condition. Scarce. Bookseller Inventory # 87985 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Chas. L. Webster & Co.,, New York:, 1889. First American edition.

Publisher's prospectus or salesman's dummy, with half-title page, frontis illustration, title page, contents page, "List of Illustrations" page [stating illustrations not complete], preface, 63 pages of text, 15 pages of illustrations, and publisher's sample advertisements. The 32-page subscription form section has been torn out (the salesman must have sold them all). One of the two samples of the leather spines on inside front cover is missing, but the fold out-front cover and spine example for the cloth issue is attached to the rear pastedown and is in nice condition. The front cover shows the three-quarter leather option and the full, decorated leather option serves as the rear cover. Marbled paper example used as front endpaper and eventual endpaper for the cloth issue used as rear free endpaper--the latter paper is worn on edges and a little loose, but otherwise, although showing relatively minor wear on edges this rare dummy/prospectus is in decent condition, especially considering its use. Bookseller Inventory # 49501 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Charles L.

Webster & Company, 1889, remains of publisher's original first-edition luxury-format, blind-stamped leather binding, spine missing and covers detached, some leather missing from the covers, but with the original end-papers and pasted-on ticket (#2624) intended to keep track of all sold copies, thus preventing subscription agents from siphoning the copies off to non-subscribers without the publisher's knowledge. With the half-title on the recto of frontispiece (which is by far the rarest first-issue point), without the S between The and King on page 59, but with the perfect type on p. 72. Text block fine. An exceedingly rare survival, in however rudimentary format, of a publisher's luxury-format issue, of the book normally found in pictorial cloth binding, with the rarest issue-point of the half-title on the recto of the frontispiece present. The copy should not be, in our judgment, repaired, but preserved as is, with all warts. Bookseller Inventory # 2009144387 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster & Co, New York, 1889.

Leather Spine & Corners. Book Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Dan Beard (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition/First State copy with brown leather spine wrap & corners, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering, marbled endpages. Front hinge has been reglued with strip of burgandy leather and first blank endpage has been reglued and taped. Previous owner's gift inscription on first blank endpage dated 1889. Page 59 has "s" before king, and broken type on page 72. Boards are rubbed and show some spotting. Black ink marking on top & bottom page edges (origin unknown). Interior tight and clean with only the slightest discoloration from age. Bookseller Inventory # 4148BR Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1889. Book Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First state with the two main issue points: "The S King" on p. 59 and no damage to type on p. 72.

This copy with floral end-papers (others with geometric no priority assigned). A lovely copy overall, Near Fine, with clean boards and bright gilt. A small crack at the rear hinge deftly repaired and a few leaves within the text block with minor separation, but a pleasing solid example overall. One of the great humorist's classic works. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" follows the adventures of an engineer who's sent backwards in time to the Middle Ages - and the realm of King Arthur. Twain worked on the book in stops and starts in the 1880s, before finishing it in 1889. Strangely enough, along with some contemporary works by H.G. Wells and Edward Bellamy, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is considered one of the early works in the science fiction, "time-travel" genre. "?we feel that in this book our arch-humorist imparts more of his personal quality than in anything else he has done. Here he is to the full the humorist, as we know him; but he is very much more?

The delicious satire, the marvellous wit, the wild, free, fantastic humor are the colors of the tapestry, while the texture is a humanity that lives in every fibre. At every moment the scene amuses, but it is all the time an object-lesson in democracy. It makes us glad of our republic and our epoch; but it does not flatter us into a fond content with them" (William Dean Howells in the Atlantic). Near Fine. Bookseller Inventory # 1416 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: New York: Charles L.Webster, 1889. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first state, with S-ornament on page 59 and perfect type at page 72. Two pages of ads in the back and page [1] is blank. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt, with floral endpapers (copies are also found with geometric patterned end papers; no priority). Mere trace of rubbing at spine tips, but a near fine copy.

In recent scholarship this landmark time-travel science fiction work has been proposed as Mark Twain's "other masterpiece" because of its frame narrative structure and its disturbing social themes. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 108018 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Here you have a very good FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' published by Charles L. Webster and Company, New York in 1889. This wonderful book was Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard; original half morocco binding with gilt title, raised bands on spine. As noted for the first edition, first printing of this rare book the caption "The King" has a small S-like ornament between the two words on page 59. Overall this book is in really nice shape and only has the minor issue of a corner chip off nine (9) pages - see 4th photo for corner chip - I would say that this was a publisher issue based on the uniformity of this. .

Please check out the photos and act quickly as this rare book in this quite rare condition is priced to sell. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-11563917419 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, second state without the "S" on page 59. 8vo. 575pp. Green cloth covered boards stamped in gilt; blue and black on front cover and in gilt on spine. Profusely illustrated with full-page and text drawings. The many illustrations of Dan Beard add a great deal to the attractiveness of the volume. They are unusual in that many of them are caricatures of prominent industrialists and rulers of the era (ref: Johnson, A Bibl. of the Works of Mark Twain). Fine condition. Comes housed in a custom-made slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 1410017 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster & Company, New York, 1889. Square octavo, pp.

[i-iv] v-xv [xvi] 17-575 [576: blank] [577-578: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, 220 illustrations by Dan Beard, original pictorial olive-green cloth, front panel stamped in black, blue-gray, and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, blue-gray endpapers with floral pattern printed in gold. First edition. Second state without small S-like ornament between "THE" and "KING" in caption on page [59]. The U.S. edition was to have been published 10 December 1889, but copies were apparently released earlier (DLC deposit copy recorded 5 December 1889). The Chatto & Windus edition was published 6 December 1889 as per the author's instructions. Twain's "best and most influential work of SF ." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1247. "The classic 'dark' epoch collision projected backward in time .

the first (and still among the best) of all the 'new maps of hell.'" - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 39-40. Anatomy of Wonder (1981) 1-45; (1987) 1-25; (1995) 1-25; and (2004) II-1152. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-152. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2210. Clareson, Science-Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 757. Lewis, Utopian Literature, pp. 190-91. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 215. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900, p. 187. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 80. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp.

428-32. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 196. Reginald 14357. BAL 3429. Wright (III) 1090. Hint of rubbing to cloth at lower spine end and corner tips, a bright, nearly fine copy of this attractive book. A superior copy with tight inner hinges (today uncommon thus). (#138056). Bookseller Inventory # 138056 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Rose Publishing, Toronto, 1890. Hardcover. First Canadian. Decorated green cloth. Very similar to the American edition right down to the endpapers though with slight differences in size and other details. BAL 3429: First state of page 59 as seems to be true of all of the later contemporary Canadian editions; perfect type on page 72. Both McBride and Ahearn err in their assessments of the true First Canadian Edition which should have three figures on the cover, the "Rose Publishing Co." imprint on the spine, and 1890 on the title page--all of which this copy has.

Deposited on Dec. 11, 1889, six days after the American Edition. This copy has an early owner inscription on the front fly dated "New Years/90." Attractive copy of a scarce book. Two small punctures to spine. Minor wear to spine tips. Very Good or better. Bookseller Inventory # 004819 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L Webster & Co., New York, 1889. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, first state with "S" between The and King on p.59 however slight type breaks to last 3 lines of p.72; title and spine read "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court"; olive cloth with rubbing to edges, corners, top and bottom of spine and lower back corner; the spine has been professionally rebacked; very light dampstaining affecting only several pages of text; attractive in a custom slip case; stamp to ffep; text clean, bright, tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 000246 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Charles L. Webster, NY, 1889. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Endpaper professionally restored and book tightened. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in blue and gold with patriotic illustration to front panel. This is the First U.S. edition, (mixed state) that was issued simultaneously with the U.K. edition. no "s"-like ornament in title of illustration on p.59 but with perfect type on p.72. The book is in great condition with just a bit of scuffing to spine ends. Ref.: BAL 3429 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Bookseller Inventory # 4999210 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : Mark Twain : 9780375757808 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Paperback Add to basket Add to wishlist Description 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." show more Product details 129.54 x 200.66 x 30.48mm | 340.19g Publication date Classics Review quote "Twain is the funniest literary American writer. . . . [I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him." --George Saunders show more About Mark Twain Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri; his family moved to the port town of Hannibal four years later. His father, an unsuccessful farmer, died when Twain was eleven. Soon afterward the boy began working as an apprentice printer, and by age sixteen he was writing newspaper sketches. He left Hannibal at eighteen to work as an itinerant printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on Mississippi steamboats, advancing from cub pilot to licensed pilot.

After river shipping was interrupted by the Civil War, Twain headed west with his brother Orion, who had been appointed secretary to the Nevada Territory. Settling in Carson City, he tried his luck at prospecting and wrote humorous pieces for a range of newspapers. Around this time he first began using the pseudonym Mark Twain, derived from a riverboat term. Relocating to San Francisco, he became a regular newspaper correspondent and a contributor to the literary magazine the "Golden Era." He made a five-month journey to Hawaii in 1866 and the following year traveled to Europe to report on the first organized tourist cruise. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches" (1867) consolidated his growing reputation as humorist and lecturer. After his marriage to Livy Langdon, Twain settled first in Buffalo, New York, and then for two decades in Hartfort, Connecticut. His European sketches were expanded into "The Innocents Abroad" (1869), followed by "Roughing It" (1872), an account of his Western adventures; both were enormously successful.

Twain's literary triumphs were offset by often ill-advised business dealings (he sank thousands of dollars, for instance, in a failed attempt to develop a new kind of typesetting machine, and thousands more into his own ultimately unsuccessful publishing house) and unrestrained spending that left him in frequent financial difficulty, a pattern that was to persist throughout his life. Following "The Gilded Age" (1873), written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, Twain began a literary exploration of his childhood memories of the Mississippi, resulting in a trio of masterpieces--"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876), "Life on the Mississippi" (1883), and finally "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885), on which he had been working for nearly a decade.

Another vein, of historical romance, found expression in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882), the satirical "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889), and "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" (1896), while he continued to draw on his travel experiences in "A Tramp Abroad" (1880) and "Following the Equator" (1897). His close associates in these years included William Dean Howells, Bret Harte, and George Washington Cable, as well as the dying Ulysses S. Grant, whom Twain encouraged to complete his memoirs, published by Twain's publishing company in 1885. For most of the 1890s Twain lived in Europe, as his life took a darker turn with the death of his daughter Susy in 1896 and the worsening illness of his daughter Jean. The tone of Twain's writing also turned progressively more bitter.

"The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson" (1894), a detective story hinging on the consequences of slavery, was followed by powerful anti-imperialist and anticolonial statements such as 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' (1901), 'The War Prayer' (1905), and 'King Leopold's Soliloquy' (1905), and by the pessimistic sketches collected in the privately published "What Is Man?" (1906). The unfinished novel "The Mysterious Stranger" was perhaps the most uncompromisingly dark of all Twain's later works. In his last years, his financial troubles finally resolved, Twain settled near Redding, Connecticut, and died in his mansion, Stormfield, on April 21, 1910. show more Flap copy 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. show more Follow us

Question: Who wrote "The Prince and the Pauper" and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
Answer: Mark Twain