A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court误闯亚瑟王宫
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作者： Mark Twain 著
出 版 社： 进E
出版时间： 1983-10-1字数：版次： 1页数： 316印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780553211436包装： 平装内容简介
Grade 5 Up-While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he wrote many of his enduring classics during the years he lived in Hartford, Connecticut. He had come a long way from Hannibal when he focused his irreverent humor on medieval tales, and wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The hit on the head that sent protagonist Hank Morgan back through 13 centuries did not affect his natural resourcefulness. Using his knowledge of an upcoming eclipse, Hank escapes a death sentence, and secures an important position at court. Gradually, he introduces 19th century technology so the clever Morgan soon has an easy life. That does not stop him from making disparaging, tongue-in-cheek remarks about the inequalities and imperfections of life in Camelot. Twain weaves many of the well-known Arthurian characters into his story, and he includes a pitched battle between Morgan's men and the nobility. Kenneth Jay's narration is a mix of good-natured bonhomie for Hank and more formal diction for the arcane Olde English speakers. Appropriate music is used throughout to indicate story breaks and add authenticity to scenes. This good quality recording is enhanced by useful liner notes and an attractive case. Younger listeners may need explanations of less familiar words, and some knowledge of the Knights of the Round Table will be helpful. Libraries completing an audiobook collection of Twain titles will enjoy this nice, but not necessary, abridgement.
Satirical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1889. It is the tale of a commonsensical Yankee who is carried back in time to Britain in the Dark Ages, and it celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values in contrast to the superstitious ineptitude of a feudal monarchy. Twain wrote it after reading Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and awakens in England in the year 528. He is captured and taken to Camelot, where he is put on exhibit before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table. He is condemned to death, but remembering having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution, he amazes the court by predicting the eclipse. It is decided that he is a sorcerer like Merlin, and he is made minister to the ineffectual king. In an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom, he strings telephone wire, starts schools, trains mechanics, and teaches journalism. He also falls in love and marries. But when Hank tries to better the lot of the peasants, he meets opposition from many quarters. He and Arthur, in disguise, travel among the miserable common folk, are taken captive and sold as slaves, and only at the last second are rescued by 500 knights on bicycles. Hank and his family briefly retire to the seaside. When they return they find the kingdom engulfed in civil war, Arthur killed, and Hank's innovations abandoned. Hank is wounded, and Merlin, pretending to nurse him, casts a spell that puts him to sleep until the 19th century. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介：
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.
目录
Preface
A Word of Explanation
CHAPTER 1
Camelot
CHAPTER 2
King Arthur's Court
CHAPTER 3
Knights of the Table Round
CHAPTER4
SirDinadan the Humorist
CHAPTER 5
AnInspiration
CHAPTER 6
The Eclipse
CHAPTER 7
Merlin's Tower
CHAPTER 8
The Boss
CHAPTER 9
TheTournament
CHAPTER 10
Beginnings of Civilization
CHAPTER 11
The Yankee in Search of Adventures
CHAPTER 12
SlowTorture
CHAPTER 13
Freemen!
CHAPTER 14
“DefendTheeLord!”
CHAPTER 15
Sandyr，s Tale
CHAPTER 16
Morgan Le Fay
CHAPTER 17
A Royal Banquet
CHAPTER 18
Inthe Queen'sDungeons
CHAPTER 19
Knight-Errantry as aTrade
CHAPTER20，
The Ogre's Castle
CHAPTER 21
The Pilgrims
CHAPTER 22
The Holy Fountain
GHAPTER 23
Restoration ofthe Fountain
CHAPTER 24
A Rival Magician
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