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 novel that 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."

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Author: Mark Twain
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 7.69h x 5.15w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780199540587

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 21
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 527 / Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

About the Author
M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of the Humanities at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia. He has received awards from the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle for his contribution to the study of American humour and Mark Twain.