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Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic. Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape... Read Full Overview

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The first American edition (1889) of the novel, approved by Twain and published by his own company.
- All 220 original illustrations, bringing to life Twain's admiration for King Arthur, Merlin, and Camelot as well as his... Read Full Overview

In this classic satiric novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, falls unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528 -- where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy... Read Full Overview

When Connecticut mechanic and foreman Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious, he wakes not to the familiar scenes of nineteenth-century America but to the bewildering sights and sounds of sixth-century Camelot. Although confused at first and quickly imprisoned, he soon realises that... Read Full Overview

From the author of countless esteemed classics such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, , Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court follows an American engineer named Hank Morgan. When Hank suffers from a severe head injury, he falls unconscious,... Read Full Overview

The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they... Read Full Overview

Hank Morgan is a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who, after a blow to the head, awakens to find himself inexplicably transported back in time to early medieval England where he meets King Arthur himself. Hank, who had an image of that time that had been colored... Read Full Overview

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is the 1889 novel by the famous author Mark Twain. The story is about a "Yankee" engineer from Connecticut that is accidentally transported back in space and time to the court of King Arthur and his use of technological knowledge to... Read Full Overview

Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) es una obra literaria del escritor estadounidense Mark Twain que enmarca ideas religioso-pol ticas y conocimientos tecnol gicos de la poca del autor en una ficci n caballeresca sat rica. En 1995... Read Full Overview

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a resident of 19th century Hartford Connecticut who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. A classic satire, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"... Read Full Overview