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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

When Hank Morgan, a Connecticut engineer, receives a blow to the head, he awakens in medieval England during King Arthur's reign.

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain is a novel. When Hank Morgan, a Connecticut engineer, receives a blow to the head, he awakens in medieval England during King Arthur's reign.

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“Camelot—Camelot,” said I to myself. “I don’t seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely.”

It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the smell of flowers, and the buzzing of insects, and the twittering of birds, and there were no people, no wagons, there was no stir of life, nothing going on. The road was mainly a winding path with hoof-prints in it, and now and then a faint trace of wheels on either side in the grass—wheels that apparently had a tire as broad as one’s hand.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. Camelot
  2. 02Chapter II. King Arthur’s Court
  3. 03Chapter III. Knights of the Table Round
  4. 04Chapter IV. Sir Dinadan the Humorist
  5. 05Chapter V. An Inspiration
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Eclipse
  7. 07Chapter VII. Merlin’s Tower
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Boss
  9. 09Chapter IX. The Tournament
  10. 10Chapter X. Beginnings of Civilization
  11. 11Chapter XI. The Yankee in Search of Adventures
  12. 12Chapter XII. Slow Torture
  13. 13Chapter XIII. Freemen
  14. 14Chapter XIV. “Defend Thee, Lord”
  15. 15Chapter XV. Sandy’s Tale
  16. 16Chapter XVI. Morgan Le Fay
  17. 17Chapter XVII. A Royal Banquet
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. In the Queen’s Dungeons
  19. 19Chapter XIX. Knight-Errantry as a Trade
  20. 20Chapter XX. The Ogre’s Castle
  21. 21Chapter XXI. The Pilgrims
  22. 22Chapter XXII. The Holy Fountain
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. Restoration of the Fountain
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. A Rival Magician
  25. 25Chapter XXV. A Competitive Examination
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. The First Newspaper
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. Drilling the King
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. The Smallpox Hut
  30. 30Chapter XXX. The Tragedy of the Manor-House
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. Marco
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. Dowley’s Humiliation
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Sixth Century Political Economy
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. A Pitiful Incident
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. An Encounter in the Dark
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. An Awful Predicament
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
  40. 40Chapter XL. Three Years Later
  41. 41Chapter XLI. The Interdict
  42. 42Chapter XLII. War!
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Battle of the Sand Belt
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. A Postscript by Clarence

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
322 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers
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