A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain Library) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to boss the whole country inside of three weeks. And so he does. Emerging as The Boss, he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 14 February 2011
- Format: Paperback 504 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780520268166 ISBN 10: 0520268164
- Sales rank: 1,295,545
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Full description for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
"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. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race". The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks". And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss", he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results.
