A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court-亚瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格北方佬

作者：Twain Mark

书名：A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court《亚瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格北方佬》

中文简介：A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court《亚瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格北方佬》在这本书中，一个来自康涅狄格州的名叫汉克摩根的北方佬工程师头部受到了重击，在亚瑟王统治时期，他不知何故穿越到英格兰。在他被亚瑟王的一个骑士俘虏之后，汉克意识到他实际上是在过去，他利用他的知识让人们相信他是一个强大的魔术师。他试图使过去现代化，以使人们的生活更美好，但最终他无法阻止亚瑟的死亡。马克吐温写这本书是一个浪漫的骑士观念的滑稽剧。这部小说是对封建主义和君主制的讽刺，在质疑资本主义理想和工业革命成果的同时，也崇尚朴素的独创性和民主价值。吐温及其同龄人的几部作品标志着社会经济话语从镀金时代向进步时代的转变。

英文简介：One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose!

Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.

While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.