A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bantam Classics) - Softcover

Twain, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553211439 ISBN 13: 9780553211436

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1983

Synopsis

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.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0553211439
• ISBN 13: 9780553211436
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 336