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The bulk of its composition was done at Twain's summer home at Elmira, New York and was completed at Hartford, Connecticut. [6] It was first published in England by Chatto & Windus under the title A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur in December 1889.
- Mark Twain
- United States
- 1889
- English
Cover title: A Yankee in King Arthur's court. First edition. Cf. BAL, which describes the variants known. Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 2067 Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature 3429 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Recat. to AACR 2 to distinguish states. Copy 1 and 2 condemned, not seen, states undetermined. vj03 22may85 ...
Full Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court When Written: Between 1885 and 1889 Where Written: Twain mostly composed A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court during vacations at his family’s summer home in Elmira, New York, but he finished it in Hartford, Connecticut. When Published: December 1889 Literary Period: American ...
A narrator identified as “ M.T. ” (pointing to the book’s author, Mark Twain) encounters a strange tourist ( Hank Morgan) at Warwick Castle in England. It turns out that both men are at the same hotel, and later that night, Hank begins to tell M.T. his life story. He was born and raised in 19th-century Hartford, Connecticut.
- CAMELOT. “Camelot—Camelot,” said I to myself. “I don’t seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely.” It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
- KING ARTHUR’S COURT. The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way
- KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND. Mainly the Round Table talk was monologues—narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor.
- SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST. It seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt.
Geoffrey’s History is the first book to tell the story of King Arthur, his queen, his knights, his strange begetting, and his death. Over the next century, long narrative poems and tales (romances) and some shorter poems (lais) were written about the adventures of various knights. In some of them, Arthur is just a casual character; in others ...
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Twain, Mark. Published by Rose Publishing Company, Toronto, Canada, 1890. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 575 pp. with 221 black and white illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard.
