A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - Chapter 1, 2, 3 (Part 1 of 11 Full Audiobook)
2020-07-23
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain - Chapter 1, 2, 3 (Part 1 of 11 Full Audiobook)
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TIMESTAMPS:
Chapter 2 starts at 21:29
Chapter 3 starts at 33:29
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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 named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician.
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Author: Mark Twain
Original Publication Date: 1889
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".
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