Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Name: Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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ISBN: 9780553211436

ISBN-10: 0553211439

ISBN-13: 9780553211436

Edition: 1981

Authors: Mark Twain

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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…

Book details

List price: $5.95
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 4.10" wide x 6.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.330



Preface


A Word of Explanation



Camelot



King Arthur's Court



Knights of the Table Round



Sir Dinadan the Humorist



An Inspiration



The Eclipse



Merlin's Tower



The Boss



The Tournament



Beginnings of Civilization



The Yankee in Search of Adventure



Slow Torture



Freemen!



"Defend Thee, Lord!"



Sandy's Tale



Morgan Le Fay



A Royal Banquet



In the Queen's Dungeons



Knight-Errantry as a Trade



The Ogre's Castle



The Pilgrims



The Holy Fountain



Restoration of the Fountain



A Rival Magician



A Competitive Examination



The First Newspaper



The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito



Drilling the King



The Smallpox Hut



The Tragedy of the Manor House



Marco



Dowley's Humiliation



Sixth-Century Political Economy



The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves



A Pitiful Incident



An Encounter in the Dark



An Awful Predicament



Sir Lancelot and Knights to the Rescue



The Yankee's Fight with the Knights



Three Years Later



The Interdict



War!



The Battle of the Sand Belt



A Postscript by Clarence