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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain

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Publisher: Bantam Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780553211436 - ISBN-10: 0553211439
Publication Date: 10/1/1983
Pages: 336


Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Audio Cassette (Unabridged), Hardcover, Hardcover, Audio CD (Abridged), Audio Cassette (Abridged)

Book Description:
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.

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Margaret Y. (clarabear) wrote on 9/19/2005...


Classic biting satire, with great historical insights.


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