Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Cour A. Mark Twain

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       About Mark Twain:

      Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".

      Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. His humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", was published in 1865, based on a story that he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.

      Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, but he invested in ventures that lost most of it—notably the Paige Compositor, a mechanical typesetter that failed because of its complexity and imprecision. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of these financial setbacks, but he eventually overcame his financial troubles with the help of Henry Huttleston Rogers. He chose to pay all his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, even after he had no legal responsibility to do so.

      Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it" as well; he died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

      Source: Wikipedia

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Preface

       A Word Of Explanation

       Chapter 1 - Camelot

       Chapter 2 - King Arthur’s Court

       Chapter 3 - Knights of The Table Round

       Chapter 4 - Sir Dinadan The Humorist

       Chapter 5 - An Inspiration

       Chapter 6 - The Eclipse

       Chapter 7 - Merlin’s Tower

       Chapter 8 - The Boss

       Chapter 9 - The Tournament

       Chapter 10 - Beginnings of Civilization

       Chapter 11 - The Yankee In Search of Adventures

       Chapter 12 - Slow Torture

       Chapter 13 - Freemen

       Chapter 14 - “Defend Thee, Lord”

       Chapter 15 - Sandy’s Tale

       Chapter 16 - Morgan Le Fay

       Chapter 17 - A Royal Banquet

       Chapter 18 - In The Queen’s Dungeons

       Chapter 19 - Knight-Errantry As A Trade

       Chapter 20 - The Ogre’s Castle

       Chapter 21 - The Pilgrims

       Chapter 22 - The Holy Fountain

       Chapter 23 - Restoration of The Fountain

       Chapter 24 - A Rival Magician

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