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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court /
This book is designed primarily to alleviate the agony that language learning in its early stages entails, when the foreign words in the sentence simply will not combine to make sense. Legions of beginners give up when they could have made it with the aid of a book like this. But for centuries schoo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2010.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Mark Twain library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Foward; 1 Camelot; 2 King Arthur's Court; 3 Knights of the Table Round; 4 Sir Dinadan the Humorist; 5 An Ispriration; 6 The Eclipse; 7 Merlin's Tower; 8 The Boss; 9 The Tournament; 10 Beginnings of Civilization; 11 The Yankee in Search of Adventures; 12 Slow Torture; 13 Freemen!; 14 "Defend Thee, Lord!"; 15 Sandy's Tale; 16 Morgan le Fay; 17 A Royal Banquet; 18 In the Queen's Dungeons; 19 Knight-Errantry as a Trade; 20 The Ogre's Castle; 21 The Pilgrims; 22 The Holy Fountain; 23 Restoration of the Fountain; 24 A Rival Magician; 25 A Competitive Examination.
- 26 The First Newspaper27 The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito; 28 Drilling the King; 29 The Small-Pox Hut; 30 The Tragedy of the Manor House; 31 Marco; 32 Dowley's Humilation; 33 Sixth-Century Political Economy; 34 The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves; 35 A Pitiful Incident; 36 An Encounter in the Dark; 37 An Awful Predicament; 38 Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue; 39 The Yankee's Fight with the Knights; 40 Three Years Later; 41 The Interdict; 42 War!; 43 The Battle of the Sand-Belt; 44 A Postscript by Clarence; References; Explanatory Notes; Note on the Text.