The original American satirist.

Crackedon the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. Branded by Twain's aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain's Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Preface

The Text of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

 Contents of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

 Author's Preface

Backgrounds and Sources

 King Arthur

 Washington Irving·[The Total Eclipse]

 W. E. H. Lecky·[The Ascetic Saints]

 W. E. H. Lecky·[The King's Touch]

 W. E. H. Lecky·[Financing the Mansion House]

Composition and Publication

 THE AUTHOR AND THE NOVEL

Samuel L. Clemens·The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870

Samuel L. Clemens·The Great Revolution in Pitcaim

Samuel L. Clemens·Legend of the "Spectacular Ruin"

Samuel L. Clemens·The New Dynasty

Samuel L. Clemens·To Mrs. ]ervis Langdon

Samuel L. Clemens·To Mrs. Cincinnatus A. Taft

George Washington Cable·[Buying a Copy of Morte d'Arthur]

Samuel L. Clemens·From Mark Twain's Notebooks & ]ournals

From the New YorkSun and the New YorkHerald·[The 1886 Reading at Governor's Island]

Samuel L. Clemens·Letters about A Connecticut Yankee

Samuel L. Clemens·From The Autobiography of Mark Twain

Samuel L. Clemens·[A Rejected Preface]

THE DAN BEARD ILLUSTRATIONS

Daniel Carter Beard·[Making the Illustration for A Connecticut Yankee

Daniel Carter Beard·[The Character of the Yankee]

Samuel L. Clemens·To Dan Beard

Samuel L. Clemens·To a Reader

Henry Nash Smith·[Beard's Illustrations] THE ENGLISH EDITION

Dennis Welland·[Clemens, Chatto, and the English Edition]

Criticism

 EARLY VIEWS

 Sylvester Baxter·[Nothing More Delicious]

 William Dean Howells·[His Wonder-Story]

 From the London Daily Telegraph·[King Arthur or lay Gould?]

 William T. Stead·Mark Twain's New Book: A Satirical Attack on English Institutions

 From the Boston Literary World·[This Melancholy Product of the American Mind]

 Andrew Lang·[He Has Not the Knowledge]

 Rudyard Kipling·[The Yankee Animal]

 Charles Whibley·[A Bull in the China-Shop of Ideas]

 Albert Bigelow Paine·[His Literary Worst and Best]

 RECENT CRITICISM

 John B. Hoben·[So Much Divine Comedy]

 Howard G. Baetzhold·[The Composition of A Connecticut Yankee]

 James D. Williams·Revision and Intention in Mark

 Twain's A Connecticut Yankee

 James D. Williams·The Use of History in MarkTwain's

 A Connecticut Yankee

 Kenneth S. Lynn·The Volcano

 James M. Cox·A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's

 Court: The Machinery of Self-Preservation

 Louis J. Budd·Uncle Sam

 Henry Nash Smith·The Ideas in a Dream

 David Ketterer·Epoch-Eclipse and Apocalypse: Special

 "Effects"in A Connecticut Yankee

 Everett Carter·The Meaning of A Connecticut Yankee

 Selected Bibliography