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While Mark Twain is known for his more popular children’s books, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn, his burlesque A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court has gained much praise among critics and audience as well. Published in 1889, the novel deals with a Yankee engineer who accidentally finds himself transported back in time in King Arthur’s court.Hank Morgan is a 19th century engineer who lives in Hartford, Connecticut. After suffering a blow to the head, he awakens and realizes he has traveled back in time. He finds himself in Medieval England, when King Arthur and his knights ruled. He meets the King himself and he becomes one of the most popular citizens of the Kingdom.Hank Morgan also uses his engineering skills and knowledge to create things which seem magical to locals. He creates fireworks, demolitions and establishes himself as a powerful magician. However, he is not just trying to impress the locals, but he is also attempting to modernize and Americanize medieval England and improve the lives of its citizens. He ultimately fails to prevent King Arthur from dying and he the Catholic Church of that time soon interdicts him.It is said that Mark Twain was inspired to write this novel after having a dream in which he was a knight in full armor. He found the armor inconvenient and cumbersome and this led him to write a novel which satirizes romantic myths about chivalry and the medieval times.While the engineer, Hank Morgan, ultimately fails to modernize England, Mark Twain succeeds in bringing a smile on the face of his readers through funny events such as a knight charging a man dressed in strange clothing and others. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a must read to anyone who is not a fan of mainstream myths and extreme romanticizing.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur’s Camelot. What follows is a culture clash of the first magnitude, as practical-minded Hank, disgusted with the ignorance and superstition of the people, decides to enlighten them with education and technology. Through a series of wonderfully imaginative adventures, Twain celebrates American homespun ingenuity and democracy as compared to the backward ineptitude of a chivalric monarchy. At the same time, however, Twain raises the question of whether material progress necessarily creates a better society. As Hank becomes more powerful and self-righteous, he also becomes more ruthless, more autocratic, and less able to control events, until the only way out is a massively destructive war. While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain’s later works can be discerned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a whimsical fantasy and a social satire chock-full of brilliant Twainisms. Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American-a Connecticut Yankee-by a stroke of fate is sent back into time to sixth-century England and ends up in Camelot and King Arthur's Court. Although of average intelligence, he finds himself with knowledge beyond any of those in the sixth century, and he uses it to become the king's right hand man and to challenge Merlin as the court magician. Astounded at the way of life in Camelot, Hank does the only thing he can think of to do: change them. In his attempt to civilize medieval Camelot, he experiences many challenges and misadventures.

A connecticu Yankee in King arthur's Court is not only a very funny story, but a biting diatribe against the cruel laws of feudal England and the contrast between the justice of those days and the more humane practices of the 1890's in America Nothing is sacred to Hank Morgan, The Boss. He hits at slavery, the church, the divine right of kings with equal lack of respect.

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This is an *ABRIDGED* reading of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It is read by Carl Reiner and it is part of the 'Classics Read by Celebrities' audiobook series. A Yankee mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528 in this charming yarn by Mark Twain. Exhibited before the knights of the Round Table, he is condemned to death, but saves himself by using his 19th-century scientific knowledge to pose as a sorcerer.

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Why buy our paperbacks? Standard Font size of 10 for all books High Quality Paper Fulfilled by Amazon Expedited shipping 30 Days Money Back Guarantee BEWARE of Low-quality sellers Don't buy cheap paperbacks just to save a few dollars. Most of them use low-quality papers & binding. Their pages fall off easily. Some of them even use very small font size of 6 or less to increase their profit margin. It makes their books completely unreadable. How is this book unique? Unabridged (100% Original content) Font adjustments & biography included Illustrated About A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 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. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.

This novel of Mark Twain's -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- gives us an odd view of the American literary genius: it shows is bent twoward science fictional. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.A Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well. Twain's fascination appears in his time traveler (from contemporary America, yet!), using his knowledge of science to introduce modern technology to Arthurian England. As with all works of a master like Twain, we highly recommend this novel -- but just between us, this book is a lot of fun, too. Go ahead, read it now.