Summary Before The Boss and Sandy reach the castle, they come upon a knight who is wearing one of The Boss’s signboards advertising soap. They chat for awhile, and this knight informs them that the castle belongs to Morgan le Fay, who is King Arthur’s sister and King Uriens’s wife. […]
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Summary People arrive in Camelot regularly with tales of captured princesses. These tales are accepted without question, and knights vie with one another for the honor of going out to “right the wrongs.” One day, a young lady with a tale about how her mistress and forty-four other “young and […]
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Summary Tournaments are frequent events at Camelot, and The Boss usually attends them in order to see if there are any improvements that he can make. Indeed, he has such an interest in improvements that his first official act is to open a patent office. As this particular tournament takes […]
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Summary Hank feels rather proud of himself and is almost impatient for the next day so that he can be “the center of all the nation’s wonder and reverence.” All such feelings vanish, however, when the men at arms come to get him, telling him that the stake is ready […]
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Summary Around the Round Table, the various knights tell the tales of their prowess at arms. As he watches and listens, Hank decides that there is something lofty, sweet, and manly about these men, but also that they are simplehearted and lacking in brainpower. Sir Kay is brought to the […]
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Summary As they ride along, the narrator of “A Word of Explanation” notices the quiet of the countryside and the lack of people and wagons. When they meet a young girl, he is surprised that she is calm; seemingly, the man in armor causes no alarm within her; nor does […]
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Summary “A Word of Explanation,” together with a “Final P. S. by M. T.” at the end of the novel, establishes a “frame” for the story of Hank Morgan’s adventures in Arthurian England. The narrator in this introductory chapter tells us how he came to hear parts of this story […]
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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the author of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court; he is the tourist to whom Hank Morgan tells part of his story and to whom Morgan gives the manuscript that chronicles his adventures in sixth-century England. Hank Morgan The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s […]
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There are two approaches to A Connecticut Yankee: there are the numerous polemic digressions on such weighty subjects as social criticism on slavery, on the injustices of the Church and the nobility, on the absurdity of hereditary preferments, on the ridiculousness of knighthood, and on the existence of unjust laws. […]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a “framed story.” That is, the first chapter tells how a tourist in England, presumably Mark Twain, meets a stranger who tells him part of his story and then gives him a manuscript that tells the rest of his strange tale. In […]
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