When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur\'s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises.
This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said ``He not only illustrates.
Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new readers.
In his Introduction, M.
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur\'s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises