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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Frontispiece and Title Page, Contents, and Illustrations
Description: Front matter from the first American edition
A Word of Explanation
"The Tale of the Lost Land" [interlude]
CHAPTER 1 Camelot
The Round Table [interlude]
CHAPTER 2 King Arthur’s Court
Merlin [interlude]
CHAPTER 3 Knights of the Table Round
This Horrible Sky-towering Monster [interlude]
CHAPTER 4 Sir Dinadan the Humorist
The King [interlude]
CHAPTER 5 An Inspiration
Sir Boss [interlude]
CHAPTER 6 The Eclipse
One of the People [interlude]
CHAPTER 7 Merlin’s Tower
"That Was the Church" [interlude]
CHAPTER 8 The Boss
Sir Sagramor le Desirous [interlude]
CHAPTER 9 The Tournament
For I Was afraid of the Church [interlude]
CHAPTER 10 Beginnings of Civilization
Sandy [interlude]
CHAPTER 11 The Yankee in Search of Adventures
The Iron Dude [interlude]
CHAPTER 12 Slow Torture
Audi Alteram [interlude]
CHAPTER 13 Freemen!
They Thought... [interlude]
CHAPTER 14 “Defend Thee, Lord!”
The Three Maids [interlude]
CHAPTER 15 Sandy’s Tale
Mrs Le Fay [interlude]
CHAPTER 16 Morgan le Fay
King Uriens [interlude]
CHAPTER 17 A Royal Banquet
"They have a right..." [interlude]
CHAPTER 18 In the Queen’s Dungeons
How Old Are You, Sandy? [interlude]
CHAPTER 19 Knight-Errantry as a Trade
"The Troublesomest Old Sow of the Lot" [interlude]
CHAPTER 20 The Ogre’s Castle
Supreme Head of the Church [interlude]
CHAPTER 21 The Pilgrims
A Foundling [interlude]
CHAPTER 22 The Holy Fountain
I Command the Fell Spirit...[interlude]
CHAPTER 23 Restoration of the Fountain
What Is It You Call It? [interlude]
CHAPTER 24 A Rival Magician
Truly I Find...[interlude]
CHAPTER 25 A Competitive Examination
Latest Eruption only Two Cents [interlude]
CHAPTER 26 The First Newspaper
Barber to H.M. the King [interlude]
CHAPTER 27 The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
The Spirit that Goeth with Burdens...[interlude]
CHAPTER 28 Drilling the King
He Was Great Now [interlude]
CHAPTER 29 The Small-Pox Hut
The Tree and the Fruit...[interlude]
CHAPTER 30 The Tragedy of the Manor House
"To the Gentleman..."[interlude]
CHAPTER 31 Marco
"Walking on Air..." [interlude]
CHAPTER 32 Dowley’s Humiliation
Rah for Protection! [interlude]
CHAPTER 33 Sixth-Century Political Economy
My Lord the earl Grip [interlude]
CHAPTER 34 The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
He Was a Man. [interlude]
CHAPTER 35 A Pitiful Incident
The Slave Driver [interlude]
CHAPTER 36 An Encounter in the Dark
Sister your Blind is Disarranged [interlude]
CHAPTER 37 An Awful Predicament
"Launcelot swept in" [interlude]
CHAPTER 38 Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
Slim Jim [interlude]
CHAPTER 39 The Yankee’s Fight with the Knights
"A Yard of Snowy Church-Warden" [interlude]
CHAPTER 40 Three Years Later
Snuffing the Candle [interlude]
CHAPTER 41 The Interdict
Sir Mordred [interlude]
CHAPTER 42 War!
One of the 52 [interlude]
CHAPTER 43 The Battle of the Sand-Belt
HISTORY OF ENGLAND [interlude]
CHAPTER 44 A Postscript by Clarence
Final P. S. by M. T.