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'You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs - and bodies?' So Hank Morgan, mechanic and factory supervisor from Hartford, Connecticut, introduces his strange history, which begins when he wakes up to find himself in sixth-century England. And so Mark Twain introduces us to the results - satiric, satanic, anguished and anarchic - of an imaginary confrontation between the new, nineteenth-century America and Olde England. Rich comedy and extravagant romance permeate the narrative, but these are undercut by a darkness and a depth of seriousness which give the work an ambivalence - the product of Twain's own divided attitude. A benign fantasy becomes an apocalyptic vision of terrifying violence and destruction. A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court is a superbly entertaining novel. It is also a profoundly disturbing one.
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Guns and Gunning (Hardcover)
Bellmore H. Browne, Dan Beard; Created by J Stevens Arms and Tool Co
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R843
Discovery Miles 8 430
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Guns and Gunning (Paperback)
Bellmore H. Browne, Dan Beard; Created by J Stevens Arms and Tool Co
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R496
Discovery Miles 4 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION BOYS, this foreword is too highbrow
for your taste, skip it, but the author dont believe you will, and
even if he has used some dictionary words he feels that you will
forgive him after he tclls you that he did so only because of the
lack of time to think up more simple terms. What he wants to say is
that . . . Bolhood is a wonderful and invaluable asset to the
nation, for in the breast of every boy there is a divine spark,
materialists call it the urge of youth, others caII it the Christ
in man, the Quakers caII it the inner light, but all view it with
interest and anxiety, the ignorant with fear and the wise with
understanding sympathy, but also with a feeling akin to awe. Those
of us who think we know boys, feel that this inner light
illuminating their wonderful powers of imagination, is the
compelling force culminating in the vigorous accomplishments of
manhood. It is the force which sent Columbus voyaging over the
unknown seas, which sent Captain Cool on his voyage around the
world, the same force which carried Lindbergh in his frail airship
across the Atlantic. Yes, it is the subIine force 15-which has
inspired physirians and laymen to chearfully risk and sacrifice
their lives in search of the cause of Iellom Fever, Anthrax,
IIydrophobia and other communicabIe diseases . . ...
Of the three secretaries who assisted President Abraham
Lincoln--John G. Nicolay, John Hay, and William O. Stoddard--only
Stoddard wrote an extended memoir about his time in the Executive
Mansion. First published in 1890, the book vividly depicts the
president's agonizing reaction to the defeats at Fredericksburg and
Chancellorsville, the difficulties encountered (and presented) by
Mary Lincoln, the president's relations with George B. McClellan
and other generals, and the anxiety preceding the Merrimack's epic
battle with the Monitor. In 1866 Stoddard also penned thirteen
"White House Sketches" about his time in Lincoln's service.
Originally published in an obscure New York newspaper, these
essays--never previously collected--supplement Stoddard's memoir.
Together the memoir and sketches provide an intimate look at the
sixteenth president during a time of crisis.
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