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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Leland Krauth
Afterword by Edmund Reiss

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Leland Krauth
Afterword by Edmund Reiss

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Leland Krauth
Afterword by Edmund Reiss

By Mark Twain
Introduction by Leland Krauth
Afterword by Edmund Reiss

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    About A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.
     
    Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.

    Considered by H. L. Mencken to be “the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion…that ever lived,” Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man. 
     
    With an Introduction by Leland Krauth
    And an Afterword by Edmund Reiss

    About A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.
     
    Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.

    Considered by H. L. Mencken to be “the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion…that ever lived,” Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man. 
     
    With an Introduction by Leland Krauth
    And an Afterword by Edmund Reiss

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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

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Signet
    Nov 02, 2004 | 384 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 | ISBN 9780451529589

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Signet
    Nov 02, 2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9781101099285

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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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