Fülszöveg
Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in
nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find him-
self in the England of King Arthur. The tough-
minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific en-
lightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface
only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and
ignorance. This is the springboard which launches
one of literature's most extraordinary excursions
into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's
unique virtuosity, this acrobatic tour de force moves
from broad comedy to biting social satire, and from
the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing in-
sights into the nature of man, whose capacity for
progress is matched only by his capacity for de-
struction. The reader is shaken by laughter — and
something more than laughter — as he falls under
the book's enchantment and finds that the grim
truths of Mark Twain's Camelot strike a resound-
ingly contemporary note. "This story is something
other and greater than a funny...
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Fülszöveg
Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in
nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find him-
self in the England of King Arthur. The tough-
minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific en-
lightenment, faces a world whose idyllic surface
only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and
ignorance. This is the springboard which launches
one of literature's most extraordinary excursions
into fantasy. With the agility of Mark Twain's
unique virtuosity, this acrobatic tour de force moves
from broad comedy to biting social satire, and from
the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing in-
sights into the nature of man, whose capacity for
progress is matched only by his capacity for de-
struction. The reader is shaken by laughter — and
something more than laughter — as he falls under
the book's enchantment and finds that the grim
truths of Mark Twain's Camelot strike a resound-
ingly contemporary note. "This story is something
other and greater than a funny book. It is a work
written with a high purpose, to convey what seemed
to its author the most profound and elemental truths
about human society."—Stephen Leacock
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