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Pros
A time with such suffering would be hard to make very comedic, but there’s something about how mark twain utilizes ‘dark humor’ that makes parts of the book hilarious. One of clemens (twain's) funniest books.
A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court is the first of mark twain’s darker novels. Hank morgan is the superintendent of a weapons factory in hartford, ct in the year 1879 when he gets into a fight and is knocked out. With his modern knowledge of ... Read More
Cons
The story ends on a bizarrely depressing note for a tale that was predominantly a humorous satire for the first seven-eighths of its length. Anachronism soon devolves as the main source of humor for the book, along with the narrator's off-handed way o... Read More
This is a classic example of what happens, i suppose, when a journalist with a wide breadth of knowledge but no depth attempts to novelize about a historical subject. It's nothing more than a 400 page rant about how evil wealthy people are, in contras... Read More
This one is just too much of mark twain trying to make * remarks in order to be a cynic. Too much of pushing american chauvinism against too little realism to be bearable. Twain knocks off some good one-liners, and does enough with the concept in the ... Read More
Amazon needs to do a better job of either filtering out bad editions of (mostly older) books or at least post a warning that the edition is lacking in some way. There are parts where hank is reading what's in the newspaper, and once where there was a ... Read More
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The time the book was written in was full of nothing but tragedy and we are constantly hit with the realities of slavery diseas... Read More
” the king and hank end up going undercover with the common folk but in the process get captured and sold as slaves not even se... Read More
Twain’s biting satire brutally but humorously mocks courtly medieval romances along with the concepts of monarchy aristocracy s... Read More
It isn’t until toward the end of the book but eventually hank is able to advance england with the introduction of the telephone... Read More
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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
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With his high ranking position and knowledge from thirteen centuries in the future this yankee tries to reform england from the inside
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I enjoyed how mark twain developed the main character’s conflicting attitudes throughout the story
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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
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It isn’t until toward the end of the book but eventually hank is able to advance england with the introduction of the telephone and even names the child he has “hello central” which is what telephone operators would say when you called the telephone office in his time
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If you are someone who takes books very seriously i would definitely stay away from this book
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