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"Un americano alla corte di re Artù" racconta la storia di Hank Morgan - il più yankee degli yankees: nato ad Hartford, nello Stato del Connecticut - il quale si ritrova inspiegabilmente catapultato nella mitica Camelot, sotto il regno del leggendario re britannico Artù. Hank, uomo dotato di grande abilità manuale e buone conoscenze scientifiche, spirito libero e anticlericale, non prova alcuna soggezione al cospetto di dame e cavalieri, mitici eroi e fate crudeli. Infatti per lui Lancillotto, Morgana o Sagramor non sono che ridicoli cialtroni che si fanno strada a forza di menzogne e pregiudizi immotivati, e per quanto Hank possa provare una certa stima per il re, di certo si fa beffe del suo presunto diritto divino a governare. Tra peripezie e avventure di ogni tipo, il nostro simpatico americano riesce abilmente a farsi largo nell'arcaica società di Camelot scalzando il povero Merlino e creandosi la fama di mago potentissimo - prevedendo eclissi, costruendo linee telegrafiche e applicando la tecnologia del XIX secolo al VI secolo.
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- Pagine: 427
- Data di uscita: 17-03-2016
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Forget Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this is Twains´ greatest work. And his unknown, shorter stories, all doing the only thing to make humankinds´ extreme stupidity and cruelty bearable, by satirizing them in a way no other classic author could or dared. Although some of it was released after hi Leggi tutto
2023 Like probably most of you, I hate to DNF a book. It kills something in a my soul a little. But I just really couldn't go on any further with this story back in 2017. Recently, I listened to a really interesting lecture, King Arthur: History and Legend , and the professor mentioned this and said h Leggi tutto
Most people think they know this story - but they don't - they just know the fish-out-of-water story that is just the surface of this book; this is really a story of about the biggest problems Mark Twain observed in his time period, including slavery, abuses of political power, unchecked factory gr
I don't know why this book doesn't rank higher among the classics & isn't discussed more. Twain manages to highlight more of our human & modern society's ills & graces than any other book I've read. This is not just a man out of his time, but a journey of discovering just how large, fast changes, se Leggi tutto
“A democracy will survive until it has an established church.” ~Mark Twain I sometimes have a hard time getting fired-up over literary fiction unless I can find elements of nonfiction within the story to engage with. Twain, one of my favorite authors, always delivers ample engagement. “I was training Leggi tutto
I managed to be quite disappointed in this book. Yes, some parts are clever and funny, especially near the beginning; but by midway the joke had gone stale, and by the end I was elated to be done with it. The main problem, for me, was that Twain’s satire is almost wholly directed at the mythologiz Leggi tutto
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