num_pages: 400
description: When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novelthat remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said "He not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts."
language: English
title: A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
titlecomplete: A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
characters: Merlin (Arthurian wizard), Hank Morgan, King Arthur
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Humor, Literature, Classics, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Arthurian
ratings_count: 102194
places: England, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, United Kingdom
publisher: Oxford University Press