A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- 355
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” drops a nineteenth-century American among Arthur’s knights and plays the clash for laughs. Mark Twain’s 1889 novel reads on the surface as a light, adventurous time-travel comedy. Some readers are left unsure whether it celebrates modern progress or mocks the people so sure of it, and find the narrator arrogant enough to make the book hard going.
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About the book
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 historical novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 217 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 59% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Classics average of 7.7. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 15 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 202 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
It has 355 pages — longer than 76% of the ranked books in Classics.
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