In the three novels collected in this Library of America volume, Mark Twain turned his comic genius to a period that fascinated and repelled him in equal measure: medieval and Renaissance Europe. This lost world of stately pomp and unspeakable cruelty, artistic splendor and abysmal...
Mark Twain applied his humorous brilliance to the mediaeval and Renaissance eras of Europe in the three books contained in this Library of America edition. These eras captivated and repulsed him in equal measure. The seemingly antithesis of brashly optimistic, commercial,...