by Mark Twain · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246447
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«Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo» is Mark Twain's satirical novel, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (405 pages, in Spanish).
A nineteenth-century American engineer appears in King Arthur's court and, to save himself, predicts an eclipse that impresses those present. His industrial mindset clashes with the medieval, and the novel satirises feudal society and blind faith in modern progress, with a critical eye on power, justice and human nature.
Translation by Salvador Bordoy Luque; original from 1889: «A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court». 2004 edition in the Aventuras collection (no. 35).
For readers who enjoy social satire, humour and time-travel stories.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel". He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
