{"product_id":"a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-paperback","title":"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRoy Blount\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Carter Beard\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHank 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCritically deemed one of Twain's finest and most caustic works, \u003cb\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHank 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. \u003cbr\u003eCritically 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri; his family moved to the port town of Hannibal four years later. His father, an unsuccessful farmer, died when Twain was eleven. Soon afterward the boy began working as an apprentice printer, and by age sixteen he was writing newspaper sketches. He left Hannibal at eighteen to work as an itinerant printer in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. From 1857 to 1861 he worked on Mississippi steamboats, advancing from cub pilot to licensed pilot. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter river shipping was interrupted by the Civil War, Twain headed west with his brother Orion, who had been appointed secretary to the Nevada Territory. Settling in Carson City, he tried his luck at prospecting and wrote humorous pieces for a range of newspapers. Around this time he first began using the pseudonym Mark Twain, derived from a riverboat term. Relocating to San Francisco, he became a regular newspaper correspondent and a contributor to the literary magazine the \u003ci\u003eGolden Era\u003c\/i\u003e. He made a five-month journey to Hawaii in 1866 and the following year traveled to Europe to report on the first organized tourist cruise. \u003ci\u003eThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e (1867) consolidated his growing reputation as humorist and lecturer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter his marriage to Livy Langdon, Twain settled first in Buffalo, New York, and then for two decades in Hartfort, Connecticut. His European sketches were expanded into \u003ci\u003eThe Innocents Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e (1869), followed by \u003ci\u003eRoughing It\u003c\/i\u003e (1872), an account of his Western adventures; both were enormously successful. Twain's literary triumphs were offset by often ill-advised business dealings (he sank thousands of dollars, for instance, in a failed attempt to develop a new kind of typesetting machine, and thousands more into his own ultimately unsuccessful publishing house) and unrestrained spending that left him in frequent financial difficulty, a pattern that was to persist throughout his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1873), written in collaboration with Charles Dudley Warner, Twain began a literary exploration of his childhood memories of the Mississippi, resulting in a trio of masterpieces--\u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer\u003c\/i\u003e (1876), \u003ci\u003eLife on the Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e (1883), and finally \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e (1885), on which he had been working for nearly a decade. Another vein, of historical romance, found expression in \u003ci\u003eThe Prince and the Pauper\u003c\/i\u003e (1882), the satirical \u003ci\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/i\u003e (1889), and \u003ci\u003ePersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc\u003c\/i\u003e (1896), while he continued to draw on his travel experiences in \u003ci\u003eA Tramp Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e (1880) and \u003ci\u003eFollowing the Equator\u003c\/i\u003e (1897). His close associates in these years included William Dean Howells, Bret Harte, and George Washington Cable, as well as the dying Ulysses S. Grant, whom Twain encouraged to complete his memoirs, published by Twain's publishing company in 1885. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most of the 1890s Twain lived in Europe, as his life took a darker turn with the death of his daughter Susy in 1896 and the worsening illness of his daughter Jean. The tone of Twain's writing also turned progressively more bitter. \u003ci\u003eThe Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e (1894), a detective story hinging on the consequences of slavery, was followed by powerful anti-imperialist and anticolonial statements such as 'To the Person Sitting in Darkness' (1901), 'The War Prayer' (1905), and 'King Leopold's Soliloquy' (1905), and by the pessimistic sketches collected in the privately published \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Man?\u003c\/i\u003e (1906). The unfinished novel \u003ci\u003eThe Mysterious Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e was perhaps the most uncompromisingly dark of all Twain's later works. In his last years, his financial troubles finally resolved, Twain settled near Redding, Connecticut, and died in his mansion, Stormfield, on April 21, 1910.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 512\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.07 x 5.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 04, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.2\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 21\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52020466385197,"sku":"9780375757808","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-paperback-6668370.webp?v=1777438927","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}