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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author
Mark Twain
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
282 pages
ISBN
9781910343524
Published
15 July 2014
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Magic
  • England
  • Yankee
  • Mark Twain
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • Huck
  • Tom Sawyer
  • adventures
  • American novel
  • boy's own

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Description

A Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking he is a magician—and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a magician in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.

Author

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), river pilot, Nevada journalist, and the writer who turned American talk into literature. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer gave boyhood its permanent stage; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn put a runaway child and a fugitive slave on the Mississippi and asked what conscience sounds like when the law is wrong. He lectured across America and Europe, lost fortunes, and kept writing.

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