Mark Twain's Classic Novel: "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"

Kenneth Blake: Very interesting book I have always wanted to read this

United Kingdom on Nov 23, 2023

John and Lisa: If you love Mark Twain or King Arthur, this book is a can’t miss. This story began lifelong love affair with all things Arthurian.

United States on Oct 22, 2023

Kindle Customer: Simply the best American author,
satirist, humanist, realist...no one has ever topped his ability to poke fun at human arrogance and idiocy as he has.

United States on Oct 07, 2023

Scotty and Rachel: My 15 year old loves this book. This is his first time reading Mark Twain and he’s laughing out loud. So nice to see that the youth of today still find a great humorist like Mark Twain to be as clever and compelling as ever!

United States on Sep 25, 2023

Tania S G: Aulas de Língua Inglesa

Brazil on Jul 01, 2023

LA in Dallas: I think I was a ten-year-old kid when I read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court for the first time. Like every other American kid who liked to read, I had read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Honestly, I never loved Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn was better. But then I went looking for more works by Mark Twain, and found his England novels The Prince and the Pauper and A Connecticut Yankee.

I think A Connecticut Yankee was probably my favorite Mark Twain work. I was familiar by that time with King Arthur, mostly in the form of T.H. White's The Once and Future King. A Connecticut Yankee was something different -- it confronted Arthurian legend with modernity. Arthur's court as presented in A Connecticut Yankee is a squalid band of ignorant brigands. There is no magic. Characters such as Merlin as charlatans. The only magic, in fact, is the real magic of technology, which the Boss carries in his brain and deploys to bring about something like a miniature Gold Age.

Though a child, I think I appreciated that this was a more realistic and probably more accurate picture of medieval England than those of the legends and fairy tales. To a ten-year-old kid, it was an...

United States on May 25, 2023

Ken Edwards: I am interested in books illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

Australia on Aug 30, 2021

Diane Malley: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (a book by Mark Twain himself) is the tale of a soul from the late 19th century by the name of Hank Morgan, who one day after a blow to the head, somehow travels back in time and finds himself in 6th century Arthurian England. With his modern knowledge of technology, Hank is able to convince the people he is a very skilled magician even outclassing the likes of Merlin and earns himself a very important seat in King Arthur’s court and becomes known far and wide by the nickname, “The Boss”. With his high ranking position and knowledge from thirteen centuries in the future, this Yankee tries to reform England from the inside.

This book was strangely interesting to me, and for many good reasons. I read this book for a school assignment and finished it way before my project deadline (very rarely do I finish a book for school so quickly). I enjoyed how Mark Twain developed the main character’s conflicting attitudes throughout the story. For every moment he seemed very unsympathetic and mean there was an equal moment where he was the most fragile and empathetic being in the entire story. To me, Hank’s character represented...

United States on Oct 13, 2020

chw9999: Das ebook ist komplett mit "A Word of Explanation", und hat nur ganz wenige Digitalisierungsfehler (offensichtlich Buchstaben-Misinterpretation beim OCR). Frei nach dem Motto: Wer Schreibfehler findet, darf sie behalten!

Ich habe Buch und Inhalt genossen. Wer hätte es gedacht: oft weit moderner, als man denken möchte. Und das trotz des Alters (immerhin von 1889)! Im Umkehrschluss bedeutete das aber auch, dass einiges sich seitdem weiterhin noch nicht genug zum Besseren gewandelt hat, und manches leider auch schon den Zenith hinter sich zu haben scheint (vielleicht ist es ja auch nur ein Sattelpunkt :))

Immer wieder erfrischend auch die Seitenhiebe gegen die deutsche Sprache. Ich bewundere die Leute, die Deutsch als Fremdsprache gelernt haben und sprechen, Hut ab! Englisch ist aber auch fein ;)

Germany on Jul 09, 2020

S Bhattacharjee: Mark Twain's classic comic novel in a wonderfully packaged volume, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is essentially one of those books that will crack you up everytime you read it. And I mean, it WILL crack you up for sure. I had read the book in its abridged format as a child and was thoroughly amused, and I picked this up in its complete format because much like the phenomenally funny works by Jerome K Jerome, I cannot resist Twain's works either. If you are in the search for some classic witticisms, look no further. You have arrived at the right place.

India on Nov 24, 2017