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.