A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Random House Publishing Group 2005
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9780553901573
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Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur’s utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic.
Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
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Street Date:
05/31/2005
Language:
English
ASIN:
B000FCK5XU
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 9.2, 21 Points
Level 9.2, 21 Points
Lexile measure:
1080
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Mark Twain. (2005). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Random House Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Mark Twain. 2005. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Random House Publishing Group.
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