A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain Hayes Barton Press ISBN: L-999-70277
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Mark Twain’s comedic satire transports young New Englander Hank Morgan to seventh-century Britain. Juxtaposing two supposed utopias - the romantic age of kings and the age of nineteenth-century innovation - Twain reveals the flaws in each while creating an amusing picture of a nineteenth-century American determined to bring democracy to the feudal monarchy of King Arthur’s era.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • A WORD OF EXPLANATION
  • HOW SIR LAUNCELOT SLEW TWO GIANTS, AND MADE A CASTLE FREE
  • THE STRANGER'S HISTORY
  • Chapter I CAMELOT
  • Chapter II KING ARTHUR'S COURT
  • Chapter III KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND
  • Chapter IV SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST
  • Chapter V AN INSPIRATION
  • Chapter VI THE ECLIPSE
  • Chapter VII MERLIN'S TOWER
  • Chapter VIII THE BOSS
  • Chapter IX THE TOURNAMENT
  • Chapter X BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
  • Chapter XI THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES.
  • Chapter XII SLOW TORTURE
  • Chapter XIII FREEMEN
  • Chapter XIV "DEFEND THEE, LORD"
  • Chapter XV SANDY'S TALE
  • Chapter XVI MORGAN LE FAY
  • Chapter XVII A ROYAL BANQUET
  • Chapter XVIII IN THE QUEEN'S DUNGEONS
  • Chapter XIX KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AS A TRADE
  • Chapter XX THE OGRE'S CASTLE
  • Chapter XXI THE PILGRIMS
  • Chapter XXII THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
  • Chapter XXIII RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
  • Chapter XXIV A RIVAL MAGICIAN
  • Chapter XXV A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
  • Chapter XXVI THE FIRST NEWSPAPER
  • Chapter XXVII THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO
  • Chapter XXVIII DRILLING THE KING
  • Chapter XXIX THE SMALLPOX HUT
  • Chapter XXX THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE
  • Chapter XXXI MARCO
  • Chapter XXXII DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION
  • Chapter XXXIII SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • Chapter XXXIV THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES
  • Chapter XXXV A PITIFUL INCIDENT
  • Chapter XXXVI AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK
  • Chapter XXXVII AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT
  • Chapter XXXVIII SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE
  • Chapter XXXIX THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS
  • Chapter XL THREE YEARS LATER
  • Chapter XLI THE INTERDICT
  • Chapter XLII WAR!
  • Chapter XLIII THE BATTLE OF THE SAND BELT
  • Chapter XLIV A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE
  • Final P.S. by M.T.

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