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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
- Tom Blair
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| | Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Vol. 1
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| | by Mark Twain
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ZIN Product Number: 10153284
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Mass Market Paperback, 1st ed., 274 pages
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
ISBN: 0553211439
Release Date: Jan 12, 2002
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 3 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
221 b/w illustrations
A Connecticut Yankee is Mark Twain's most ambitious work, a tour de force with a science-fiction plot told in the racy slang of a Hartford workingman, sparkling with literary hijinks as well as social and political satire. Mark Twain characterized his novel as "one vast sardonic laugh at the trivialities, the servilities of our poor human race." The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks." And so he does. Emerging as "The Boss," he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot-with unexpected results.
Daniel Carter Beard illustrated the first edition of Yankee in 1889, and Mark Twain praised his work as "better than the book-which is a good deal for me to say, I reckon." This Mark Twain Library edition reprints the text based on the author's manuscript, all 221 of Beard's illustrations, and the notes from the California scholarly edition.
Author Biography:The Mark Twain Project is a major editorial and publishing program of The Bancroft Library. Its six resident editors are at work on a comprehensive scholarly edition of all of Mark Twain's private papers and published works. Twenty-three of an estimated seventy volumes in The Works and Papers of Mark Twain are currently available.
| | | | From The Publisher
"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." Critically 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.
| | | | Annotation
A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.
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Good, But Challenging
-- A reviewer, a book critic., March 4, 2002
Mark Twain Has Done It Again!
-- Becky, one who enjoys time-travel, August 12, 2002
Also Recommended: A Time For Everything, & In A Moment Of Time by Chris Clark Davidson
*~BORING~*
-- Caitlin, totaly bored with this book !!, June 25, 2001
Also Recommended: i liked ( Number the stars )and (running out of time)
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"To my mind the illustrations are better than the book--which is a good deal for me to say, I reckon"--Mark Twain
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