A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and beneficent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era's faith in sc... More
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Publisher | Bantam Books for Young Readers |
Binding | Mass Market Paperback (271 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 336 |
ISBN-10 | 0553211439 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0553211436 |
Publication Date | 10/01/1983 |
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10/4/2007 Cindy Lovell said: Brilliance! A favorite of mine, and a favorite of gifted students. When you read it, you might think you're watching the Daily Show or the Colbert Report. Twain wrote this one "with a pen warmed up in hell." There are great lesson plans on the Mark Twain Museum website to go with this book.
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