by Mark Twain · Alhambra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420512853
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«Un yanqui en la corte del rey Arturo» is Mark Twain's humorous adventure novel, published by Alhambra in paperback (68 pages, in Spanish).
Yankee Hank Morgan, a Connecticut worker, wakes up in King Arthur's court and tries to get by among knights and medieval traditions by applying nineteenth-century ingenuity and knowledge. The adventure becomes a satire full of humor and social criticism.
The original work, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, was published in 1889; this Spanish edition is from 1990.
Intended for young readers aged 10 and up and for those beginning with literary classics.
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.
