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Simon & Schuster, May 2007
Enriched Classic Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
ISBN-10: 1416534733
ISBN-13: 9781416534730
Description
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP
A nineteenth-century American travels back in time to sixth-century England in this darkly comic social satire.
THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES:
- A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
- A chronology of the author's life and work
- A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context
- An outline of key themes and plot points to guide the reader's own interpretations
- Detailed explanatory notes
- Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
- Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
- A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience
Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
SERIES EDITED BY CYNTHIA BRANTLEY JOHNSON
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 9, 2011
...R) (1:30) SHO: Fri. 3:30 P.M. (CC) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn '39. Mickey Rooney. Mark Twain's boy hero meets a bogus king and duke while rafting the Mississippi with runaway slave Jim. (G) (2:00) TCM: Thu. 10 P.M. (CC) The ...
Helium, November 2, 2009
...he may not know how to control the weather he does know how to handle a trouble maker. Mark Twain does a great job of comparing his time to that most romantic of all times in which King Arthur Ruled England from Camelot. He points out our ...
The Connecticut Post, July 5, 2009
...in his circle of friends? A: "He made sure that his friends were doing things that he admired. Mark Twain, for example, used the castle-like imagery of Barnum's opulent Bridgeport home, Iranistan, for his 1889 book, 'A Connecticut Yankee in ...
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