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

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780520268166
eBook ISBN
9780520948075
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
  9. Preface
  10. A Word of Explanation
  11. 1. Camelot
  12. 2. King Arthur’s Court
  13. 3. Knights of the Table Round
  14. 4. Sir Dinadan the Humorist
  15. 5. An Inspiration
  16. 6. The Eclipse
  17. 7. Merlin’s Tower
  18. 8. The Boss
  19. 9. The Tournament
  20. 10. Beginnings of Civilization
  21. 11. The Yankee in Search of Adventures
  22. 12. Slow Torture
  23. 13. Freemen!
  24. 14. “Defend Thee, Lord!”
  25. 15. Sandy’s Tale
  26. 16. Morgan le Fay
  27. 17. A Royal Banquet
  28. 18. In the Queen’s Dungeons
  29. 19. Knight-Errantry as a Trade
  30. 20. The Ogre’s Castle
  31. 21. The Pilgrims
  32. 22. The Holy Fountain
  33. 23. Restoration of the Fountain
  34. 24. A Rival Magician
  35. 25. A Competitive Examination
  36. 26. The First Newspaper
  37. 27. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
  38. 28. Drilling the King
  39. 29. The Small-Pox Hut
  40. 30. The Tragedy of the Manor House
  41. 31. Marco
  42. 32. Dowley’s Humiliation
  43. 33. Sixth-Century Political Economy
  44. 34. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
  45. 35. A Pitiful Incident
  46. 36. An Encounter in the Dark
  47. 37. An Awful Predicament
  48. 38. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
  49. 39. The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
  50. 40. Three Years Later
  51. 41. The Interdict
  52. 42. War!
  53. 43. The Battle of the Sand-Belt
  54. 44. A Postscript by Clarence
  55. References
  56. Explanatory Notes
  57. Note on the Text