La tentación de penetrar en el pasado, ya sea a través del túnel del tiempo o mediante aeronaves de ciencia-ficción capaces de superar la velocidad de la luz, no es nueva. Pero Mark Twain no quiso hacer alardes cientificos (para el la transposicion de epocas y cuerpos es solo un pretexto), sino un relato humoristico, empapado de satira social y politica, como es habitual en el. Las institucines monarquiucas, eclesiasticas y caballerescas reciben un buen repaso, y los personajes, un tanto grotescos y caricaturizados, a la vez que nos divierten con su comicidad irrresistible, nos situan frente a la desconfianza del autor ante ciertos valores morales tenidos por inamovibles.
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthurs utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one of Twains finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
Concebida en un principio como continuación de «Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer» (BT 8007), LAS AVENTURAS DE HUCKLEBERRY FINN es reputada sin discusión como la obramaestra de MARK TWAIN (1835-1910). Cuad
Includes 4 memorable selections spanning the career of famed American humorist: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," first published in 1865; "The 1,000,000 Bank Note," "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," and Twain's last work, "The Mysterious Stranger," published posthumously in 1916.
Eight entertaining tales, including the celebrated classic "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," Twain's hilarious savaging of that author's style; as well as "Journalism in Tennessee," "About Barbers," "The Stolen White Elephant," "A Literary Nightmare," "How to Tell a Story," more.
Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous—"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"—and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.
Las aventuras de Huckelberry Finn es la historia de una amistad, el relato de cómo Huck supera sus iniciales prejuicios y acaba cobrando un afecto más que sincero a Jim, un chico negro que huye de la esclavitud y que termina convirtiendose en su mejor amigo. A su lado descubrira el alto grado de maldad que anida en el alma del ser humano.
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