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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

By Mark Twain
Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr.

By Mark Twain
Illustrated by Daniel Carter Beard
Introduction by Roy Blount, Jr.

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

By Mark Twain

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Part of Modern Library Classics

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Dec 04, 2001 | 512 Pages

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Oct 01, 1983 | 336 Pages *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program

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    About A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic.

    Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.

    About A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress.

    A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America’s greatest writers could pen.

    About A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic.

    Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.

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    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    About Mark Twain

    MARK TWAIN, considered one of the greatest writers in American literature, was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. As a young child, he moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks… More about Mark Twain

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Paperback | $10.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Dec 04, 2001 | 512 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375757808

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Oct 01, 1983 | 336 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211436

    Category: Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    May 31, 2005 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9780553901573

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    "Twain is the funniest literary American writer. . . . [I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him."
    –George Saunders

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