A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Title:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Author:
Twain, Mark.
ISBN:
9780520948075
Personal Author:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (389 pages)
Series:
Mark Twain Library ; v.4
Mark Twain Library
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Preface -- A Word of Explanation -- 1. Camelot -- 2. King Arthur's Court -- 3. Knights of the Table Round -- 4. Sir Dinadan the Humorist -- 5. An Inspiration -- 6. The Eclipse -- 7. Merlin's Tower -- 8. The Boss -- 9. The Tournament -- 10. Beginnings of Civilization -- 11. The Yankee in Search of Adventures -- 12. Slow Torture -- 13. Freemen! -- 14. "Defend Thee, Lord!" -- 15. Sandy's Tale -- 16. Morgan le Fay -- 17. A Royal Banquet -- 18. In the Queen's Dungeons -- 19. Knight-Errantry as a Trade -- 20. The Ogre's Castle -- 21. The Pilgrims -- 22. The Holy Fountain -- 23. Restoration of the Fountain -- 24. A Rival Magician -- 25. A Competitive Examination -- 26. The First Newspaper -- 27. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito -- 28. Drilling the King -- 29. The Small-Pox Hut -- 30. The Tragedy of the Manor House -- 31. Marco -- 32. Dowley's Humiliation -- 33. Sixth-Century Political Economy -- 34. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves -- 35. A Pitiful Incident -- 36. An Encounter in the Dark -- 37. An Awful Predicament -- 38. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue -- 39. The Yankee's Fight with the Knights -- 40. Three Years Later -- 41. The Interdict -- 42. War! -- 43. The Battle of the Sand-Belt -- 44. A Postscript by Clarence -- References -- Explanatory Notes -- Note on the Text.
Abstract:
A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race." The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks." And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss," he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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