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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Contemporary literature

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
361
Release Date:
2004-11-02
Publication Date:
2004-11-02
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0451529588
ISBN13:
9780451529589
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
186 g
Height:
108 cm
Width:
173 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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