A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Twain, Mark
ISBN: 9780451512833
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This is the tale of a 19th-century citizen of Hartford, Connecticut who awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England at the time of the legendary King Arthur in AD 528.
  • Format: MassMarketPaperback
  • Author: Twain, Mark
  • ISBN: 9780451512833
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 5.00 x 1.00
  • Publication Year: 1963

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    Ariel D. - 5 years 5 months ago

    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a novel written in Mark Twain's signature snarky, satirical voice. Sometimes considered to be one of the first works of time travel fiction, the story follows Hank Morgan as he is transported from industrious nineteenth-century America to the legendary times of Arthurian England. Twain criticizes the way that the medieval era of chivalry is romanticized while simultaneously pointing to flaws in the nineteenth-century values that Morgan tries to impose on Arthur and his subjects. In doing so, Twain humorously calls attention to some of the potentially negative aspects of humanity as a whole. Most students who graduated from the American school system are probably familiar with Twain's work through The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but Mark Twain is absolutely worth revisiting in A Connecticut Yankee.

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