A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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In this classic satiric novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, falls unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528 — where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, and sentenced to death. Things are not looking good.
But Hank is a quick-witted and enterprising fellow, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity of the highest magnitude. His Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of the world beyond the Dark Ages are regarded as the most powerful sorcery — winning him a position of prime minister as well as the eternal enmity of a jealous Merlin. In an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom, Hank introduces newspapers, telephones, bicycles, and other modern conveniences to the Britain of the Dark Ages. But when he tries to improve the lot of the common people, chaos and war result, giving a bittersweet tone to this comic masterpiece by one of America's greatest storytellers.

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Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780486415918
eBook ISBN
9780486115153
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

DOVER ā€¢ THRIFT ā€¢ EDITIONS

FICTION

FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS, Edwin A. Abbott. 96pp. 0-486-27263-X
SHORT STORIES, Louisa May Alcott. 64pp. 0-486-29063-8
WINESBURG, OHIO, Sherwood Anderson. 160pp. 0-486-28269-4
PERSUASION, Jane Austen. 224pp. 0-486-29555-9
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Jane Austere. 272pp. 0-486-28473-5
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen. 272pp. 0-486-29049-2
LOOKING BACKWARD, Edward Bellamy. 160pp. 0-486-29038-7
BEOWULF, Beowulf (trans. by R. K. Gordon). 64pp. 0-486-27264-8
CIVIL WAR STORIES, Ambrose Bierce. 128pp. 0-486-28038-1
WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Emily Brontƫ. 256pp. 0-486-29256-8
THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS, John Buchan. 96pp. 0-486-28201-5
TARZAN OF THE APES, Edgar Rice Burroughs. 224pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29570-2
ALICEā€™s ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, Lewis Carroll. 96pp. 0-486-27543-4
THROUGH THE LOOKINC-GLASS, Lewis Carroll. 128pp. 0-486-40878-7
MY ƁNTONIA, Willa Gather. 176pp. 0-486-28240-6
O PIONEERS!, Willa Gather. 128pp. 0-486-27785-2
FIVE GREAT SHORT STORIES, Anton Chekhov. 96pp. 0-486-26463-7
TALES OF CONJURE AND THE COLOR LINE, Charles Waddell Chesnutt. 128pp. 0-486-40426-9
FAVORITE FATHER BROWN STORIES, G. K. Chesterton. 96pp. 0-486-27545-0
THE AWAKENING, Kate Chopin. 128pp. 0-486-27786-0
A PAIR OF SILK STOCKINGS AND OTHER STORIES, Kate Chopin. 64pp. 0-486-29264-9
HEART OF DARKNESS, Joseph Conrad. 80pp. 0-486-26464-5
LORD JIM, Joseph Conrad. 256pp. 0-486-40650-4
THE SECRET SHARER AND OTHER STORIES, Joseph Conrad. 128pp. 0-486-27546-9
THE ā€œLITTLE REGIMENTā€ AND OTHER CIVIL WAR STORIES, Stephen Crane. 80pp. 0-486-29557-5
THE OPEN BOAT AND OTHER STORIES, Stephen Crane. 128pp. 0-486-27547-7
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE, Stephen Crane. 112pp. 0-486-26465-3
MOLL FLANDERS, Daniel Defoe. 256pp. 0-486-29093-X
ROBINSON CRUSOE, Daniel Defoe. 288pp. 0-486-40427-7
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Charles Dickens. 80pp. 0-486-26865-9
THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH AND OTHER CHRISTMAS STORIES, Charles Dickens. 128pp. 0-486-28039-X
A TALE OF Two CITIES, Charles Dickens. 304pp. 0-486-40651-2
THE DOUBLE, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 128pp. 0-486-29572-9
THE GAMBLER, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 112pp. 0-486-29081-6
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 96pp. 0-486-27053-X
THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN AND OTHER STORIES, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 80pp. 0-486-29558-3
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, Arthur Conan Doyle. 128pp. 0-486-28214-7
THE LOST WORLD, Arthur Conan Doyle. 176pp. 0-486-40060-3
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, Daniel Defoe. 192pp. 0-486-41919-3
Six GREAT SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 112pp. 0-486-27055-6
SHORT STORIES, Theodore Dreiser. 112pp. 0-486-28215-5
SILAS MARNER, George Eliot. 160pp. 0-486-29246-0
JOSEPH ANDREWS, Henry Fielding. 288pp. 0-486-41588-0
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, F. Scott Fitzgerald. 208pp. 0-486-28999-0
ā€œTHE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE HITZā€ AND OTHER STORIES, F. Scott Fitzgerald. 0-486-29991-0
MADAME BOVARY, Gustave Flaubert. 256pp. 0-486-29257-6
THE REVOLT OF ā€œMOTHERā€ AND OTHER STORIES, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. 128pp. 0-486-40428-5
A ROOM WITH A VIEW, E. M. Forster. 176pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-28467-0
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD, E. M. Forster. 128pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-27791-7
THE IMMORALIST, AndrƩ Gide. 112pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-29237-1
HERLAND, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 128pp. 0-486-40429-3
ā€œTHE YELLOW WALLPAPERā€ AND OTHER STORIES, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 80pp. 0-486-29857-4
THE OVERCOAT AND OTHER STORIES, Nikolai Gogol. 112pp. 0-486-27057-2
CHELKASH AND OTHER STORIES, Maxim Gorky. 64pp. 0-486-40652-0
GREAT GHOST STORIES, John Grafton (ed.). 112pp. 0-486-27270-2
DETECTION BY GASLIGHT, Douglas G. Greene (ed.). 272pp. 0-486-29928-7
THE MABINOGION, Lady Charlotte E. Guest. 192pp. 0-486-29541-9
ā€œTHE FIDDLER OF THE REELSā€ AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, Thomas Hardy. 80pp. 0-486-29960-0
THE LUCK OF ROARING CAMP AND OTHER STORIES, Bret Harte. 96pp. 0-486-27271-0
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 272pp. 0-486-40882-5
THE SCARLET LETTER, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 192pp. 0-486-28048-9
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN AND OTHER STORIES, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 128pp. 0-486-27060-2
THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, O. Henry. 96pp. 0-486-27061-0
THE ASPERN PAPERS, Henry James. 112pp. 0-486-41922-3
THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE AND OTHER STORIES, Henry James. 128pp. 0-486-27552-3
DAISY MILLER, Henry James. 64pp. 0-486-28773-4
THE TURN OF THE SCREW, Henry James. 96pp. 0-486-26684-2
WASHINGTON SQUARE, Henry James. 176pp. 0-486-40431-5
THE COUNTRY OF THE POINTED FIRS, Sarah Orne Jewett. 96pp. 0-486-28196-5
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN, James Weldon Johnson. 112pp. 0-486-28512-X
DUBLINERS, James Joyce. 160pp. 0-486-26870-5
A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, James Joyce. 192pp. 0-486-28050-0
THE METAMORPHOSIS AND OTHER STORIES, Franz Kafka. 96pp. 0-486-29030-1
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING AND OTHER STORIES, Rudyard Kipping. 128pp. 0-486-28051-9
You KNOW ME AL, Ring Lardner. 128pp. 0-486-28513-8
SELECTED SHORT STORIES, D. H. Lawrence. 128pp. 0-486-27794-1
THE CALL OF THE WILD, Jack London. 64pp. 0-486-26472-6
FIVE GREAT SHORT STORIES, Jack London. 96pp. 0-486-27063-7
THE SEA-WOLF, Jack London. 248pp. 0-486-41108-7
WHITE FANG, Jack London. 160pp. 0-486-26968-X
DEATH IN VENICE, Thomas Mann. 96pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-28714-9
THE NECKLACE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, Guy de Maupassant. 128pp. 0-486-27064-5
BARTLEIBY AND BENITO CERENO, Herman Melville. 112pp. 0-486-26473-4
THE OIL JAR AND OTHER STORIES, Luigi Pirandello. 96pp. 0-486-28459-X
THE GOLD-BUG AND OTHER TALES, Edgar Allan Poe. 128pp. 0-486-26875-6
TALES OF TERROR AND DETECTION, Edgar Allan Poe. 96pp. 0-486-28744-0
THE QUEEN OF SPADES AND OTHER STORIES, Alexander Pushkin. 128pp. 0-486-28054-3
THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM, Olive Schreiner. 256pp. 0-486-40165-0
FRANKENSTEIN, Mary Shelley. 176pp. 0-486-28211-2
THE JUNGLE, Upton Sinclair. 320pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-41923-1
THREE LIVES, Gertrude Stein. 176pp. (Available in U.S. only.) 0-486-28059-4
THE BODY SNATCHER AND OTHER TALES, Robert Louis Stevenson. 80pp. 0-486-41924-X
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Robert Louis Stevenson. 64pp. 0-486-26688-5
TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson. 160pp. 0-486-27559-0
GULLIVERā€™S TRAVELS, Jonathan Swift. 240pp. 0-486-29273-8
THE KREUTZER SONATA AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, Leo Tolstoy. 144pp. 0-486-27805-0
THE WARDEN, Anthony Trollope. 176pp. 0-486-40076-X
FATHERS AND SONS, Ivan Turgenev. 176pp. 0-486-0073-5
ADVENTURES OF IIUCKLEBERRY FINN, Mark Twain. 224pp. 0-486-28061-6
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Mark Twain. 192pp. 0-486-40077-8
THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES, Mark Twain. 128pp. 0-486-27069-6
HUMOROUS STORIES AND SKETCHES, Mark Twain. 80pp. 0-486-29279-7
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, Jules Verne. 160pp. 0-486-41111-7
CANDIDE, Voltaire (FranƧois-Marie Arouet). 112pp. 0-486-26689-3
GREAT SHORT STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN, Candace Ward (ed.). 192pp. 0-486-28776-9
ā€œTHE COUNTRY OF THE BLINDā€ AND OTHER SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES, H. G. Wells. 160Ļp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29569-9
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, H. G. Wells. 112pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29027-1
THE INVISIBLE MAN, H. G. Wells. 112pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-27071-8
THE TIME MACHINE, H. G. Wells. 80pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-28472-7
THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, H. G. Wells. 160pp. (Not available in Europe or United Kingdom.) 0-486-29506-0
ETHAN FROME, Edith Wharton. 96...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Bibliographical Note
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Note
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. A WORD OF EXPLANATION
  8. I. CAMELOT
  9. II. KING ARTHURā€™S COURT
  10. III. KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND
  11. IV. SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST
  12. V. AN INSPIRATION
  13. VI. THE ECLIPSE
  14. VII. MERLINā€™S TOWER
  15. VIII. THE BOSS
  16. IX. THE TOURNAMENT
  17. X. BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
  18. XI. THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES
  19. XII. SLOW TORTURE
  20. XIII. FREEMEN!
  21. XIV. ā€œDEFEND THEE, LORD!ā€
  22. XV. SANDYā€™S TALE
  23. XVI. MORGAN LE FAY
  24. XVII. A ROYAL BANQUET
  25. XVIII. IN THE QUEENā€™S DUNGEONS
  26. XIX. KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AS A TRADE
  27. XX. THE OGREā€™S CASTLE
  28. XXI. THE PILGRIMS
  29. XXII. THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
  30. XXIII. RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
  31. XXIV. A RIVAL MAGICIAN
  32. XXV. A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
  33. XXVI. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER
  34. XXVII. THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO
  35. XXVIII. DRILLING THE KING
  36. XXIX. THE SMALLPOX HUT
  37. XXX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR HOUSE
  38. XXXI. MARCO
  39. XXXII. DOWLEYā€™S HUMILIATION
  40. XXXIII. SIXTH-CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY
  41. XXXIV. THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES
  42. XXXV. A PITIFUL INCIDENT
  43. XXXVI. AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK
  44. XXXVII. AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT
  45. XXXVIII. SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE
  46. XXXIX. THE YANKEEā€™S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS
  47. XL. THREE YEARS LATER
  48. XLI. THE INTERDICT
  49. XLII. WAR!
  50. XLIII. THE BATTLE OF THE SAND BELT
  51. XLIV. A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE
  52. FINAL P.S. BY M.T.
  53. DOVER ā€¢ THRIFT ā€¢ EDITIONS

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