A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtMark 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 knoweldge 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 American platitude and delusion…that ever lived,” Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man. With an Introduction by Leland Krauth And an Afterword by Edmund Reiss |
Contents
King Arthurs Court | |
Knights of the Table Round | |
Sir Dinadan the Humorist | |
An Inspiration | |
A Rival Magician | |
A Competitive Examination | |
The First Newspaper | |
The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito | |
Drilling the King | |
The Smallpox | |
The Tragedy of the Manor House | |
Marco | |
The Eclipse | |
Merlins Tower | |
The Boss | |
The Tournament | |
Beginnings of Civilization | |
The Yankee in Search of Adventures | |
Slow Torture | |
Freemen | |
Defend Thee Lord | |
Sandys Tale | |
Morgan le | |
CHAPTER XVIIA Royal Banquet | |
In the Queens Dungeons | |
KnightErrantry as a Trade | |
The Ogres Castle | |
The Pilgrims | |
The Holy Fountain | |
Restoration of the Fountain | |
Dowleys Humiliation | |
SixthCentury Political Economy | |
The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves | |
A Pitiful Incident | |
An Encounter in the Dark | |
An Awful Predicament | |
Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue | |
The Yankees Fight with the Knights | |
Three Years Later | |
The Interdict | |
War | |
The Battle of the Sand Belt | |
A Postscript by Clarence | |
Final P S by M | |
Afterword | |
Selected Bibliography A Note on the Text | |
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