Résumé
Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom, he strings telephone wire, starts schools, trains mechanics, and teaches journalism. He also falls in love and marries. But Hank is not popular with everyone – will someone find a way to get rid of him and send him back to his own time?
Auteur
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De son vrai nom Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (1835-1910) tire son pseudonyme de l'argot des pilotes de vapeur sur le Mississipi, métier qu'il exercera un temps. Il se lance en 1862 dans le journalisme. Sa première nouvelle, "L'Histoire de la grenouille sauteuse", reçoit un accueil chaleureux et lui apporte la célébrité. Dès lors, il n'arrête plus d'écrire : reportages, nouvelles, récits, et romans, dont Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer (1876) et Les Aventures de Huckleberry Finn (1885), considéré comme le texte fondateur de la littérature américaine.
Caractéristiques
Editeur : Saga Egmont International
Publication : 29 octobre 2020
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Marquage social (ePub)
Taille(s) : 625 ko (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9789176393680
