A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2004
Summary
Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.
Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England. After using his knowledge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.
Considered by H. L. Mencken to be “the most bitter critic of America…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451529589 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0451529588 |
| Author: | Mark Twain |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
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“Twain is the funniest literary American writer…[I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him.”–George Saunders
“Twain is the funniest literary American writer…[I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him.”—George Saunders
About The Author
Mark Twain
Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental-and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”
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