A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Mark Twain

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 a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. <p/>Critically deemed one of Twain's finest and most caustic works, <b>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</b> 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Mark Twain<br><b>Publisher:</b> Modern Library<br><b>Published:</b> 12/04/2001<br><b>Pages:</b> 512<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.86lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.07h x 5.19w x 1.10d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780375757808<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 9.2<br><b>Point Value:</b> 21<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>527 / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court<br><br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><br>Mark 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