A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT by Mark Twain
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, where he fools the inhabitants of that time into thinking that he is a magician, and soon uses his knowledge of modern technology to become a "magician" in earnest, stunning the English of the Early Middle Ages with such feats as demolitions, fireworks, and the shoring up of a holy well. He attempts to modernize the past, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power.
Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he was a knight himself, severely inconvenienced by the weight and cumbersome nature of his armor.
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Audiobook Name: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
Country: United States
Genre: Satire
Publisher: Charles L. Webster and Company
Publication date: 1889
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CHAPTERS:
00:00:24 - PREFACE
00:02:27 - Chapter 1: CAMELOT
00:22:03 - Chapter 2: KING ARTHUR’S COURT
00:34:34 - Chapter 3: KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND
00:48:00 - Chapter 4: SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST
00:55:40 - Chapter 5: AN INSPIRATION
01:07:41 - Chapter 6: THE ECLIPSE
01:22:23 - Chapter 7: MERLIN’S TOWER
01:37:15 - Chapter 8: THE BOSS
01:51:48 - Chapter 9: THE TOURNAMENT
02:05:41 - Chapter 10: BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
02:15:52 - Chapter 11: THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES
02:32:47 - Chapter 12: SLOW TORTURE
02:42:44 - Chapter 13: FREEMEN!
03:01:07 - Chapter 14: “DEFEND THEE, LORD!”
03:09:31 - Chapter 15: SANDY’S TALE
03:27:08 - Chapter 16: MORGAN LE FAY
03:41:30 - Chapter 17: A ROYAL BANQUET
04:00:19 - Chapter 18: IN THE QUEEN’S DUNGEONS
04:23:49 - Chapter 19: KNIGHT ERRANTRY AS A TRADE
04:31:09 - Chapter 20: THE OGRE’S CASTLE
04:46:20 - Chapter 21: THE PILGRIMS
05:12:41 - Chapter 22: THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
