Une réédition qui rappelle pourquoi Mark Twain reste un maître de la satire et de la reconstruction historique. Un Yankee à la cour du roi Arthur et Souvenirs sur Jeanne d’Arc offrent une lecture aussi pertinente aujourd’hui qu’à leur parution, mêlant humour, aventure et une critique acérée des travers humains.
The Prince and the Pauper + A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur´s Court + Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Trois chefs-d’œuvre de Mark Twain réunis pour explorer l’Europe médiévale à travers le regard acéré et satirique de l’Amérique du XIXe siècle.
The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by Mark Twain first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by Mark Twain, originally published in book form in 1896. The novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, published in 1896, is the remarkable story of the saint's life as told by the fictional Sieur Louis de Conté, Joan's page and secretary, in the form of a memoir written in the twilight of life. The character has had the privilege of growing up with Joan of Arc, accompanying her during the excitement and pageantry of her military campaigns, and being present at each of her three trials.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."
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Mark Twain, de son vrai nom Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), est l’un des écrivains américains les plus célèbres et influents. Connu pour son humour mordant et son regard critique sur la société, il a marqué la littérature mondiale avec des œuvres comme Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer et Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn. Ses romans historiques, comme ceux réunis dans ce recueil, témoignent de sa fascination pour les contradictions entre le passé et le présent, mêlant satire, aventure et profondeur psychologique.
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Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc est sans doute l’œuvre la plus aboutie de Twain, où il dépasse le cadre de la satire pour offrir une méditation poétique sur le destin, la foi et l’héroïsme. Ce recueil permet de redécouvrir un auteur bien plus complexe qu’on ne l’imagine souvent.