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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy & Magic

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics, Fantasy & Magic

Twain, Mark

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionScience Fiction

ISBN10: 1598184466
ISBN13: 9781598184464
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: Aug 1 2006
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 armor.

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. Twain's fascination appears in his time traveler (from contemporary America, yet!), using his knowledge of science to introduce modern technology to Arthurian England. As with all works of a master like Twain, we highly recommend this novel -- but just between us, this book is a lot of fun, too. Go ahead, read it now.

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