A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Twain, Mark; Stein, Bernard L.

• ISBN13: 9780520051096
• ISBN10: 0520051092
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1984-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Preface	p. xxi
A Word of Explanation	p. 1
Camelot	p. 10
King Arthur's Court	p. 14
Knights of the Table Round	p. 22
Sir Dinadan the Humorist	p. 30
An Inspiration	p. 36
The Eclipse	p. 44
Merlin's Tower	p. 52
The Boss	p. 62
The Tournament	p. 72
Beginnings of Civilization	p. 80
The Yankee in Search of Adventures	p. 88
Slow Torture	p. 98
Freemen!	p. 106
"Defend Thee, Lord!"	p. 118
Sandy's Tale	p. 126
Morgan le Fay	p. 138
A Royal Banquet	p. 148
In the Queen's Dungeons	p. 160
Knight-Errantry as a Trade	p. 174
The Ogre's Castle	p. 180
The Pilgrims	p. 190
The Holy Fountain	p. 204
Restoration of the Fountain	p. 216
A Rival Magician	p. 226
A Competitive Examination	p. 238
The First Newspaper	p. 252
The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito	p. 264
Drilling the King	p. 274
The Small-Pox Hut	p. 282
The Tragedy of the Manor House	p. 290
Marco	p. 302
Dowley's Humiliation	p. 312
Sixth-Century Political Economy	p. 322
The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves	p. 336
A Pitiful Incident	p. 350
An Encounter in the Dark	p. 360
An Awful Predicament	p. 366
Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue	p. 376
The Yankee's Fight with the Knights	p. 382
Three Years Later	p. 396
The Interdict	p. 406
War!	p. 412
The Battle of the Sand-Belt	p. 426
A Postscript by Clarence	p. 442
References	p. 451
Explanatory Notes	p. 455
Note on the Text	p. 477
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