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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (English Library)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (English Library) Paperback - 1972

by Twain, Mark

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  • Title A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (English Library)
  • Author Twain, Mark
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Date 1972-02-28
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00J06G_ns
  • ISBN 9780140430646 / 0140430644
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.92 x 5.06 x 0.72 in (20.12 x 12.85 x 1.83 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1080
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Historical fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

The original American satiristCracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written

From the publisher

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimentaland also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
Justin Kaplan is an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He is a member of the American Academy of  Arts and Letters.

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From the rear cover

Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years.

About the author

Mark Twain is the pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910). Mark Twain was always nostalgic about his childhood and in 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published, based on his own experiences. The book was soon recognised as a work of genius and eight years later the sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, was published.