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A Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court / by Mark Twain.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Twain, M.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
- Series:
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Novels
- The complete novels of Mark Twain
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Great Britain.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations.
- Arthurian romances.
- Knights and knighthood--Fiction.
- Knights and knighthood.
- Kings and rulers--Fiction.
- Kings and rulers.
- Britons--Fiction.
- Britons.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Time travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Adaptations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vi, 307 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Nelson Doubleday, Inc, [1970?]
- Summary:
- "In this classic satirical novel, published in 1889, Hank Morgan, a supervisor in a Connecticut gun factory, fall unconscious after being whacked on the head. When he wakes up he finds himself in Britain in 528 -- where he is immediately captured, hauled back to Camelot to be exhibited before the knights of King Arthur's Round Table, and sentenced to death. Things are not looking good. But Hank is a quick-witted and enterprising fellow, and in the process of saving his life he turns himself into a celebrity of the highest magnitude." -- Amazon.com summary.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy without dustjacket. Has gutter code "O24" on page 306.
- OCLC:
- 2688083
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