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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
March 13, 2016
Pages
208
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Ill
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781530530656
ISBN-10
1530530652
Dimensions
0.47 by 8 by 10 in.
Original list price
$9.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, 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. Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, and severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armo
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Ill edition from Createspace Independent Pub (March 13, 2016)
9781530530656 | details & prices | 208 pages | 8.00 × 10.00 × 0.47 in. | List price $9.99
About: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain.
About: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain.
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