{"product_id":"a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-9780451529589","title":"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court","description":"\u003cb\u003eMark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConsidered by H. L. Mencken to be \"the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion...that ever lived,\" Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Leland Krauth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e And an Afterword by Edmund Reiss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signet Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Mass Market Paperbound\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.78h x 4.22w x 1.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780451529589\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudience:\u003c\/b\u003e Young Adult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e527 \/ Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Twain\u003c\/b\u003e was born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits, he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental--and also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia for the past helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called \"the Lincoln of our literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mark Twain \/ Mass Market Paperbound \/ English","offer_id":47711721947293,"sku":"9780451529589","price":19.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3b76890d-a08a-4f10-81d7-6af0282638c8.jpg?v=1773168589","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court-9780451529589","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}