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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
- Mark Twain
- 1889
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a satirical novel by Mark Twain, first published in 1889. It is the story of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported back in time to the court of King Arthur.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, satirical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1889. It is the tale of a commonsensical Yankee who is carried back in time to Britain in the Dark Ages, and it celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values in contrast to the superstitious ineptitude of.
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In 1889, Mark Twain published the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to debunk the myths. The book has a man of Twain's era magically transported back to Camelot, the court of King Arthur.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court follows the Arthurian mythology by depicting the brutal civil war that destroyed Camelot and killed King Arthur himself. But the reader must interpret the vicious violence that characterizes both this conflict and Hank’s final battle against chivalry in the context of the American Civil War.
[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6] The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the...
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Shown here are pages from the manuscript of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889), which Samuel L. Clemens—better known as Mark Twain—characterized as “one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race.”
