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A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (Worlds Best Reading)
Mark Twain | Joseph Ciardiello

A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (Worlds Best Reading)

Reader's Digest Association (Dec 1984)
9780895771858
| Hardcover
334 pages | 157 x 226 mm | English
Dewey 813.4
LC Classification PS1308 .A1 1984
LC Control No. 84060184

Genre

  • Fantasy Fiction

Subject

  • Americans - Fiction. - Great Britain
  • Arthurian Romances - Adaptations
  • Great Britain - Fiction
  • Knights And Knighthood - Fiction
  • Time Travel - Fiction

Plot

When A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture grew into a disturbing satire of modern technology and social thought. The story of 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.

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