ISBN: 1722412364 9781722412364

Category: Humor / General

Page count: 298

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens) is one of the first descriptions of a time travelling that was published before Herbert Wells. An ordinary Yankee from Connecticut during a drunken fight was hit on the head so hard that he came to consciousness and found himself in the court of the King Arthur in the sixth century. A young adventurous man starts to reorganise a medieval legendary kingdom Logress, he "Americanizes" it to the maximum up to the industrial XIXth century. Even a worshipping solitaire rotates a sewing machine which produces cheap "saint" shirts. But many people are not happy with this situation, so the Yankees declare the war... We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.