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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Автор Марк Твен12+0101
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Дата написания1970-01-01
Язык книгиen
Возрастное ограничение12+
Описание
Автор, оказавшийся в замке Уорика, встречает странника из Хартфорда, который внезапно оказался в эпохе Артура. Используя свои знания о технологии и инженерии, он постепенно обходит магию, реформирует общество, участвует в войне и, в конце, помогает построить новое устройство обороны, меняя ход истории.
Главный конфликт / проблема
Столкновение современного человека с средневековым обществом, где он использует технологии и логику, чтобы изменить устоявшиеся системы власти и магии.
Ключевые идеи
- Перемещение душ и эпох как тема повествования
- Критика исторических правд и традиций
- Встреча современного человека с средневековым миром
- Путешествие во времени и внезапное попадание в средневековый замок.
- Использование солнечного затмения как инструмента для манипуляции королевской властью.
- Власть требует демонстрации силы и публичного подтверждения.
- Общественное восприятие и страх перед чудесами могут быть использованы для укрепления авторитета.
- Технологические и инженерные решения могут заменить сверхъестественные силы.
- Тяжесть доспехов как метафора ограничений и неудобств, налагаемых обществом.
- Критика феодальной зависимости простых людей и необходимость реальных свобод.
- Использование символических средств (мыло, фейерверки) для попытки изменить устоявшуюся систему.
- Дворяне сочетают религиозную преданность с жестокостью.
Вывод
Книга демонстрирует, что технологический прогресс способен трансформировать общество, но при этом приносит новые вызовы и моральные дилеммы.
Кому полезна
- Читатели исторической фантастики
- Любители сатиры и иронии
- Студенты литературы и истории
Главные темы
- путешествие во времени
- технология против магии
- социальная реформа
- война и политика
Персонажи
- Нарратор — Мужчина из 19‑го века, который пытается понять, где он находится, и использовать свои знания для выживания. Он стремится смягчить наказания и поддерживать баланс между властью и справедливостью. Мужчина, обладающий знаниями в области техники и магии, стремится вернуть воду и укрепить свою репутацию.
- Мерлин — Он пытается защитить свою репутацию, но его магия оказывается слабой по сравнению с инженерными способностями героя. Использует сложные заклинания, но его усилия заканчиваются неудачей. Ведёт себя как женщина, помогает с электричеством и раскрывает финальный посыл.
- Король Артур — Он пытается подражать простому человеку, но его гордость и привычки мешают. Он находится в опасности, но проявляет власть и слабость, что позволяет герою использовать его в планах. Покинул страну, оставил власть.
- Sir Kay — Участвует в боях и взаимодействует с Ланселотом.
- Clarence — Молодой человек, который быстро адаптируется к ситуации и помогает нарраторам понять происходящее. Обладает знаниями о войне и планирует оборону, использует технологические решения.
- Ланселот — Смелый рыцарь, который спас женщин от гигантов и участвует в рыцарских боях. Главный противник короля, участник войны.
- Моргана Лей Фэй — Властвует над королевством, но открыта к идеям реформ.
- Королева — Она проявляет жестокость, но также готова к смягчению наказаний.
- Сэнди — Переносит героя, но испытывает дискомфорт от тяжёлых доспехов. Помогает нарраторам в их путешествиях и исследованиях.
- Аббат — Скептически относится к магии, но открывается к технологическим решениям.
- Джон Джонс — Собирает изобилие, чтобы показать своё превосходство и унизить Доули.
- Доули — Бывший сиротка, добился успеха в ремесле, но становится объектом унижения.
Цитаты
- Вы знаете о переселении душ; знаете ли вы о перемещении эпох и тел?
- Я американец. Я родился и вырос в Хартфорде, в штате Коннектикут, в деревне, чуть за рекой.
- "IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT."
- "I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine again;"
- «Я сделал всё, чтобы показать, что могу управлять и контролировать, и теперь я могу доказать свою власть.»
- «Взрыв башни Мерлина стал символом моего правления и доказательством того, что я могу управлять судьбами королевства.»
- Я хотел платок, но он был в шлеме, и я не мог его достать.
- Я решил, что в следующий раз возьму рюкзак, чтобы не испытывать лишних неудобств.
- "The wrath and curse of God fall upon you, woman without pity"
- "Lay hands on her! To the stake with her!"
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1835–1910. Mark Twain. американский писатель, журналист и общественный деятель (1835–1910)
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Страница 2 из 94And then they all three cried, Sir Knight, we yield us unto you as man of might matchless. As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not. Fair knight, said they, that were we loath to do; for as for Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto him it were no reason. Well, as to that, said Sir Launcelot, advise you well, for ye may choose whether ye will die or live, for an ye be yielden, it shall be unto Sir Kay. Fair knight, then they said, in saving our lives we will do as thou commandest us. Then shall ye, said Sir Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay sent you thither to be her prisoners. On the morn Sir Launcelot arose early, and left Sir Kay sleeping; and Sir Launcelot took Sir Kay's armor and his shield and armed him, and so he went to the stable and took his horse, and took his leave of his host, and so he departed. Then soon after arose Sir Kay and missed Sir Launcelot; and then he espied that he had his armor and his horse. Now by my faith I know well that he will grieve some of the court of King Arthur; for on him knights will be bold, and deem that it is I, and that will beguile them; and because of his armor and shield I am sure I shall ride in peace.
And then soon after departed Sir Kay, and thanked his host.
As I laid the book down there was a knock at the door, and my stranger came in. I gave him a pipe and a chair, and made him welcome. I also comforted him with a hot Scotch whisky; gave him another one; then still another-hoping always for his story. After a fourth persuader, he drifted into it himself, in a quite simple and natural way:
THE STRANGER'S HISTORY
I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut-anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees-and practical; yes, and nearly barren of sentiment, I suppose-or poetry, in other words. My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything a body wanted-anything in the world, it didn't make any difference what; and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one-and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me.
Well, a man like that is a man that is full of fight-that goes without saying. With a couple of thousand rough men under one, one has plenty of that sort of amusement. I had, anyway. At last I met my match, and I got my dose. It was during a misunderstanding conducted with crowbars with a fellow we used to call Hercules. He laid me out with a crusher alongside the head that made everything crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it overlap its neighbor. Then the world went out in darkness, and I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all
When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself-nearly. Not entirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, looking down at me-a fellow fresh out of a picture-book. He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a prodigious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bedquilt, nearly to the ground.
"Fair sir, will ye just?" said this fellow.
"Will ye try a passage of arms for land or lady or for-"
"What are you giving me?" I said. "Get along back to your circus, or I'll report you."
Now what does this man do but fall back a couple of hundred yards and then come rushing at me as hard as he could tear, with his nail-keg bent down nearly to his horse's neck and his long spear pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business, so I was up the tree when he arrived.
He allowed that I was his property, the captive of his spear. There was argument on his side-and the bulk of the advantage
—so I judged it best to humor him. We fixed up an agreement whereby I was to go with him and he was not to hurt me. I came down, and we started away, I walking by the side of his horse. We marched comfortably along, through glades and over brooks which I could not remember to have seen before-which puzzled me and made me wonder-and yet we did not come to any circus or sign of a circus. So I gave up the idea of a circus, and concluded he was from an asylum. But we never came to an asylum-so I was up a stump, as you may say. I asked him how far we were from Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place; which I took to be a lie, but allowed it to go at that. At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture.
"Bridgeport?" said I, pointing.
My stranger had been showing signs of sleepiness. He caught himself nodding, now, and smiled one of those pathetic, obsolete smiles of his, and said:
"I find I can't go on; but come with me, I've got it all written out, and you can read it if you like."
In his chamber, he said: "First, I kept a journal; then by and by, after years, I took the journal and turned it into a book. How long ago that was!"
He handed me his manuscript, and pointed out the place where I should begin:
"Begin here-I've already told you what goes before." He was steeped in drowsiness by this time. As I went out at his door I heard him murmur sleepily: "Give you good den, fair sir."
I sat down by my fire and examined my treasure. The first part of it-the great bulk of it-was parchment, and yellow with age. I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. Under the old dim writing of the Yankee historian appeared traces of a penmanship which was older and dimmer still-Latin words and sentences: fragments from old monkish legends, evidently. I turned to the place indicated by my stranger and began to read
THE TALE OF THE LOST LAND
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Я родился и вырос в Хартфорде, в штате Коннектикут, в деревне, чуть за рекой.","\"IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.\"","\"I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine again;\"","«Я сделал всё, чтобы показать, что могу управлять и контролировать, и теперь я могу доказать свою власть.»","«Взрыв башни Мерлина стал символом моего правления и доказательством того, что я могу управлять судьбами королевства.»","Я хотел платок, но он был в шлеме, и я не мог его достать.","Я решил, что в следующий раз возьму рюкзак, чтобы не испытывать лишних неудобств.","\"The wrath and curse of God fall upon you, woman without pity\"","\"Lay hands on her! To the stake with her!\""]}],"authorSummary":{"key":"authorSummary","title":"Сводка по автору из Wikidata","body":"1835–1910. 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As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not. Fair knight, said they, that were we loath to do; for as for Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto him it were no reason. Well, as to that, said Sir Launcelot, advise you well, for ye may choose whether ye will die or live, for an ye be yielden, it shall be unto Sir Kay. Fair knight, then they said, in saving our lives we will do as thou commandest us. Then shall ye, said Sir Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay sent you thither to be her prisoners. On the morn Sir Launcelot arose early, and left Sir Kay sleeping; and Sir Launcelot took Sir Kay's armor and his shield and armed him, and so he went to the stable and took his horse, and took his leave of his host, and so he departed. Then soon after arose Sir Kay and missed Sir Launcelot; and then he espied that he had his armor and his horse. Now by my faith I know well that he will grieve some of the court of King Arthur; for on him knights will be bold, and deem that it is I, and that will beguile them; and because of his armor and shield I am sure I shall ride in peace."},{"id":"id247:14","kind":"paragraph","text":"And then soon after departed Sir Kay, and thanked his host."},{"id":"id247:15","kind":"paragraph","text":"As I laid the book down there was a knock at the door, and my stranger came in. I gave him a pipe and a chair, and made him welcome. I also comforted him with a hot Scotch whisky; gave him another one; then still another-hoping always for his story. After a fourth persuader, he drifted into it himself, in a quite simple and natural way:"},{"id":"id246:0","kind":"heading","text":"THE STRANGER'S HISTORY"},{"id":"id246:1","kind":"paragraph","text":"I am an American. I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut-anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees-and practical; yes, and nearly barren of sentiment, I suppose-or poetry, in other words. My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery. Why, I could make anything a body wanted-anything in the world, it didn't make any difference what; and if there wasn't any quick new-fangled way to make a thing, I could invent one-and do it as easy as rolling off a log. I became head superintendent; had a couple of thousand men under me."},{"id":"id246:2","kind":"paragraph","text":"Well, a man like that is a man that is full of fight-that goes without saying. With a couple of thousand rough men under one, one has plenty of that sort of amusement. I had, anyway. At last I met my match, and I got my dose. It was during a misunderstanding conducted with crowbars with a fellow we used to call Hercules. He laid me out with a crusher alongside the head that made everything crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it overlap its neighbor. Then the world went out in darkness, and I didn't feel anything more, and didn't know anything at all"},{"id":"id246:3","kind":"paragraph","text":"—at least for a while."},{"id":"id246:4","kind":"paragraph","text":"When I came to again, I was sitting under an oak tree, on the grass, with a whole beautiful and broad country landscape all to myself-nearly. Not entirely; for there was a fellow on a horse, looking down at me-a fellow fresh out of a picture-book. He was in old-time iron armor from head to heel, with a helmet on his head the shape of a nail-keg with slits in it; and he had a shield, and a sword, and a prodigious spear; and his horse had armor on, too, and a steel horn projecting from his forehead, and gorgeous red and green silk trappings that hung down all around him like a bedquilt, nearly to the ground."},{"id":"id246:5","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Fair sir, will ye just?\" said this fellow."},{"id":"id246:6","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Will I which?\""},{"id":"id246:7","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Will ye try a passage of arms for land or lady or for-\""},{"id":"id246:8","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"What are you giving me?\" I said. \"Get along back to your circus, or I'll report you.\""},{"id":"id246:9","kind":"paragraph","text":"Now what does this man do but fall back a couple of hundred yards and then come rushing at me as hard as he could tear, with his nail-keg bent down nearly to his horse's neck and his long spear pointed straight ahead. I saw he meant business, so I was up the tree when he arrived."},{"id":"id246:10","kind":"paragraph","text":"He allowed that I was his property, the captive of his spear. There was argument on his side-and the bulk of the advantage"},{"id":"id246:11","kind":"paragraph","text":"—so I judged it best to humor him. We fixed up an agreement whereby I was to go with him and he was not to hurt me. I came down, and we started away, I walking by the side of his horse. We marched comfortably along, through glades and over brooks which I could not remember to have seen before-which puzzled me and made me wonder-and yet we did not come to any circus or sign of a circus. So I gave up the idea of a circus, and concluded he was from an asylum. But we never came to an asylum-so I was up a stump, as you may say. I asked him how far we were from Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place; which I took to be a lie, but allowed it to go at that. At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture."},{"id":"id246:12","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Bridgeport?\" said I, pointing."},{"id":"id246:13","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Camelot,\" said he."},{"id":"id246:14","kind":"paragraph","text":"My stranger had been showing signs of sleepiness. He caught himself nodding, now, and smiled one of those pathetic, obsolete smiles of his, and said:"},{"id":"id246:15","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"I find I can't go on; but come with me, I've got it all written out, and you can read it if you like.\""},{"id":"id246:16","kind":"paragraph","text":"In his chamber, he said: \"First, I kept a journal; then by and by, after years, I took the journal and turned it into a book. How long ago that was!\""},{"id":"id246:17","kind":"paragraph","text":"He handed me his manuscript, and pointed out the place where I should begin:"},{"id":"id246:18","kind":"paragraph","text":"\"Begin here-I've already told you what goes before.\" He was steeped in drowsiness by this time. As I went out at his door I heard him murmur sleepily: \"Give you good den, fair sir.\""},{"id":"id246:19","kind":"paragraph","text":"I sat down by my fire and examined my treasure. The first part of it-the great bulk of it-was parchment, and yellow with age. I scanned a leaf particularly and saw that it was a palimpsest. Under the old dim writing of the Yankee historian appeared traces of a penmanship which was older and dimmer still-Latin words and sentences: fragments from old monkish legends, evidently. I turned to the place indicated by my stranger and began to read"},{"id":"id246:20","kind":"paragraph","text":"—as follows:"},{"id":"id246:21","kind":"paragraph","text":"THE TALE OF THE LOST LAND"}],"toc":[{"id":"id249:0:1","label":"A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT by MARK TWAIN (Samuel Clemens)","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe#reader-content"},{"id":"id248:0:1","label":"PREFACE","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe#reader-content"},{"id":"id247:0:1","label":"A WORD OF EXPLANATION","page":1,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe#reader-content"},{"id":"id246:0:2","label":"THE STRANGER'S HISTORY","page":2,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=2#reader-content"},{"id":"id245:0:3","label":"CHAPTER I CAMELOT","page":3,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=3#reader-content"},{"id":"id244:0:3","label":"CHAPTER II KING ARTHUR'S COURT","page":3,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=3#reader-content"},{"id":"id243:0:5","label":"CHAPTER III KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE 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TRADE","page":35,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=35#reader-content"},{"id":"id226:0:36","label":"CHAPTER XX THE OGRE'S CASTLE","page":36,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=36#reader-content"},{"id":"id225:0:38","label":"CHAPTER XXI THE PILGRIMS","page":38,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=38#reader-content"},{"id":"id224:0:41","label":"CHAPTER XXII THE HOLY FOUNTAIN","page":41,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=41#reader-content"},{"id":"id223:0:44","label":"CHAPTER XXIII RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN","page":44,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=44#reader-content"},{"id":"id222:0:47","label":"CHAPTER XXIV A RIVAL MAGICIAN","page":47,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=47#reader-content"},{"id":"id221:0:50","label":"CHAPTER XXV A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION","page":50,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=50#reader-content"},{"id":"id220:0:53","label":"CHAPTER XXVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER","page":53,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=53#reader-content"},{"id":"id219:0:56","label":"CHAPTER XXVII THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO","page":56,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=56#reader-content"},{"id":"id218:0:58","label":"CHAPTER XXVIII DRILLING THE KING","page":58,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=58#reader-content"},{"id":"id217:0:59","label":"CHAPTER XXIX THE SMALLPOX HUT","page":59,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=59#reader-content"},{"id":"id216:0:61","label":"CHAPTER XXX THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE","page":61,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=61#reader-content"},{"id":"id215:0:64","label":"CHAPTER XXXI MARCO","page":64,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=64#reader-content"},{"id":"id214:0:66","label":"CHAPTER XXXII DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION","page":66,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=66#reader-content"},{"id":"id213:0:68","label":"CHAPTER XXXIII SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY","page":68,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=68#reader-content"},{"id":"id212:0:71","label":"CHAPTER XXXIV THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES","page":71,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=71#reader-content"},{"id":"id211:0:74","label":"CHAPTER XXXV A PITIFUL INCIDENT","page":74,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=74#reader-content"},{"id":"id210:0:76","label":"CHAPTER XXXVI AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK","page":76,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=76#reader-content"},{"id":"id29:0:77","label":"CHAPTER XXXVII AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT","page":77,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=77#reader-content"},{"id":"id28:0:79","label":"CHAPTER XXXVIII SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE","page":79,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=79#reader-content"},{"id":"id27:0:80","label":"CHAPTER XXXIX THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS","page":80,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=80#reader-content"},{"id":"id26:0:83","label":"CHAPTER XL THREE YEARS LATER","page":83,"pageUrl":"/books/02stBXhe?page=83#reader-content"},{"id":"id25:0:85","label":"CHAPTER XLI THE 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