A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

About the Book

With his characteristic sardonic humor, Mark Twain (1835-1910), lambastes nineteenth-century aristocratic and religious ideals through the 1896 story of Hank Morgan's transport back to feudal times. The Yankee's attempt to engineer and enlighten Arthurian society meets with unexpected and always humorous results. Underneath the comedy, however, is a dark, ambitious critique of human nature that marks an important transition to Twain's pessimistic later writings.

About the Author

Mark Twian (1835-1910), pseudonym od Samuel Langhorne Clemens, is one of America'a best known writers and humorists. His prolific writing career was launched with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" in 1865, followed by such major works as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876),The Prince and the Pauper(1882),The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs's Court(1889), ans Pudd'nhead Wilson(1894), as well as numerous travel sketches,journalistic reports, and political essays.