Publicado por Oxford University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0195114108 ISBN 13: 9780195114102
Librería: Book Trader Cafe, LLC, New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: As New. Hardly any sign of use with No Writing in text. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, USA, 1996
ISBN 10: 0195114108 ISBN 13: 9780195114102
Librería: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Hank Morgan of Hartford, Connecticut, inadvertently travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Solid binding. Dampness has seeped into more than just the cover. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.
Publicado por Oxford University Press, Oxford, Cambridge, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, &c., 1997
ISBN 10: 0195114108 ISBN 13: 9780195114102
Librería: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. With the original illustrations by Dan Beard (chosen by Twain himself) Ilustrador. 1st Edition. HILARIOUS: SOMBERLY THROUGHT-PROVOKING: INSPIRATIONAL: ENTERTAINING: INSTRUCTIVE: DELIGHTFUL: CLASSIC: NEW First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) Second Printing: NEW handsomely-designed-illus. mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $28.00 price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ maroon linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" over front & back panels handsomely covered in matching medium-maroon paper & w/ titles ELEGANTLY black-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tight sheets & red-white-checked cloth banding at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior printed w/ ELEGANT clarity in Minion on EXCELLENT unblemished silk-finish pure-white archival paper * 6.46" x 8.64" x 1.86", 1.12 kg, xxxiii+578+36 (647) pp * CONTENTS: Editor's Note (x), Foreword (xi), Introduction (xxxi), "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (xvi+17-578), Afterword, (1), For Further Reading (16), Illustrators & Illustrations in Mark Twain's First Editions (17), Reading the Illustrations in "A Connecticut Yankee" (21), A Note of the Text (28), Contributors (30), Acknowledgments (32) * ABOUT THE BOOK: "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates w/ slapstick comedy & serious social commentary as well. In this complex & ambitious tour de force, an inventive 19th-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to 16th-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology & political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the "Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano", organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, & "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Twain's most complex & disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics & power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, brilliantly mix buffoonery w/ sharp social satire in an effective counterpoint to the text. By turns side-splittingly funny & somberly thought-provoking, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Twain at his finest. * ABOUT "THE OXFORD MARK TWAIN": Colorful, irreverent, romantic, skeptical, a master of comic asides, a bittersweet humorist, & an unflinching critic of human pretensions, Mark Twain speaks to us across time w/ verve & wisdom. Under the direction of noted Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin, & w/ fresh appreciations by a pantheon of leading writers & scholars, we now have "The Oxford Mark Twain"--29 glorious volumes of facsimile first editions make accessible to devoted readers ALL of Mark Twain, in all his richness & complexity, to inspire, entertain, instruct, & delight. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & via Mandatory USPS PRIORITY INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL to international destinations at our posted rates.