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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain, Mark

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Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1508960968
ISBN13: 9781508960966
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 20 2015
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
a comedy that sees 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through Hank Morgan's view; he is a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England where he meets King Arthur himself. The fictional Mr. Morgan, who had an image of that time that had been colored over the years by romantic myths, takes on the task of analyzing the problems and sharing his knowledge from 1300 years in the future to modernize, Americanize, and improve the lives of the people. In addition, many passages are quoted directly from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, a medieval Arthurian collection of legends and one of the earlier sources. The narrator who finds the Yankee in the modern times of Twain's nineteenth century is reading the book in the museum in which they both meet; later, characters in the story retell parts of it in Malory's original language.

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