Pub Date: December 4, 2001
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001041022
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.10" H x 8.07" L x 5.19" W ( 0.86 lbs) 512 pages
BISAC Categories:
Fiction | Classics | Satire | Time Travel
Series: Modern Library Classics
Description: 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.Review Quotes: "Twain is the funniest literary American writer. . . . [I]t must have been a great pleasure to be him."
--George Saunders