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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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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 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

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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 2, 2004

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101099285
  • Release date: November 2, 2004

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101099285
  • File size: 678 KB
  • Release date: November 2, 2004

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:9.2
Lexile® Measure:1080
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:7-9

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 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

Expand title description text