| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Contributor(s): Twain, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553211439 ISBN-13: 9780553211436 Publisher: Bantam Classics OUR PRICE: $5.36 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: October 1983 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.7" W x 6.8" (0.36 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and beneficent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era's faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America's greatest writers could pen. |