A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

De: Mark Twain

Narrado por: Lee Howard

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur's Camelot. The 'Yankee' vows brashly to "boss the whole country inside of three weeks" and embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot with 19th c. industrial inventions like electricity and gunfire. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose!

Written in 1889, Mark 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' is one of literature's first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.

While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain's later works can be discerned in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ' the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling

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Good reader, but story is incomplete

Of the several recordings I sampled, I liked this reader the best. He alone portrays Twain's different tones of sarcasm, amusement, indignation, superiority, anger, dismay, and more. It more than makes up for the fact that he doesn't use different voices for dialog. However, the book's Preface is not recorded, and it is important to setting up the story. If the listener can get that from another source, I can recommend this recording.