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Mark TwainA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (version 2) (May 3, 2008)

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LibriVox recording of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain. Read by John Greenman.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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This audio is part of the collection: LibriVox

Artist/Composer: Mark Twain
Date: 2008-05-03
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; humor; time travel; twain; adventure

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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01 Preface and Camelot	20 MB	13 MB	9.98 MB
02 - King Arthurs's Court	11 MB	7.37 MB	5.74 MB
03 - Knigts Of The Table Round	12 MB	7.98 MB	6.16 MB
04 - Sir Dinadan The Humorist	7.00 MB	4.48 MB	3.50 MB
05 - An Inspiration	11 MB	7.02 MB	5.49 MB
06 - The Eclipse	13 MB	8.61 MB	6.73 MB
07 - Merlin's Tower	14 MB	8.70 MB	6.81 MB
08 - The Boss	13 MB	8.46 MB	6.65 MB
09 - The Tournament	13 MB	8.12 MB	6.36 MB
10 - Beginnings of Civilization	9.32 MB	6.00 MB	4.66 MB
11 - The Yankee in Search of Adventures	15 MB	9.83 MB	7.75 MB
12 - Slow Torture	9.11 MB	5.81 MB	4.56 MB
13 - Freeman	17 MB	11 MB	8.41 MB
14 - Defend Thee Lord	7.68 MB	4.95 MB	3.84 MB
15 - Sandy's Tale	16 MB	10 MB	8.07 MB
16 - Morgan LeFay	13 MB	8.24 MB	6.58 MB
17 - A Royal Banquet	17 MB	11 MB	8.61 MB
18 - In the Queen's Dungeons	22 MB	14 MB	11 MB
19 - Knight-Errantry as a trade	6.71 MB	4.21 MB	3.35 MB
20 - The Ogre's Castle	14 MB	8.71 MB	6.95 MB
21 - The Pilgrims	24 MB	15 MB	12 MB
22 - The Holy Fountain	20 MB	13 MB	10 MB
23 - Restoration of the Fountain	16 MB	10 MB	7.95 MB
24 - A Rival Magician	20 MB	13 MB	9.97 MB
25 - A Competitive Examination	24 MB	15 MB	12 MB
26 - The First Newspaper	19 MB	12 MB	9.46 MB
27 - The Yankee and t	15 MB	9.68 MB	7.70 MB
28 - Drilling the King	8.95 MB	5.60 MB	4.48 MB
29 - The Smallpox Hut	13 MB	7.88 MB	6.32 MB
30 - The Tragedy of the Manor House	19 MB	12 MB	9.27 MB
31 - Marco	14 MB	8.86 MB	7.05 MB
32 - Dowley's Humliation	13 MB	8.32 MB	6.54 MB
33 - Sixth Century Political Economy	23 MB	15 MB	12 MB
34 - The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves	22 MB	14 MB	11 MB
35 - A Pitiful Incident	15 MB	9.49 MB	7.53 MB
36 - An Encounter in the Dark	7.65 MB	4.84 MB	3.82 MB
37 - An Awful Predicament	13 MB	8.43 MB	6.63 MB
38 - Sir Launcelot and Knights to he Rescue	5.25 MB	3.31 MB	2.62 MB
39 - The Yankee's Fight with the Knights	20 MB	13 MB	9.93 MB
40 - Three Years Later	15 MB	9.17 MB	7.28 MB
41 - The Interdict	8.07 MB	5.12 MB	4.04 MB
42 - War!	21 MB	13 MB	10 MB
43 - The Battle of the Sand-Belt	25 MB	16 MB	13 MB
44 - A Postscript by Clarence	7.63 MB	4.80 MB	3.81 MB

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Reviewer: prat - - September 23, 2009
Subject: Great reading
Thoroughly enjoyed the reading

Reviewer: icyjumbo - - July 25, 2008
Subject: A very characterful reading
I have long thought I ought to read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, but have never got around to it. When I saw that a recording from LibriVox was available I decided to add it to my queue. I've enjoyed most of the Mark Twain I have read, and I expected to enjoy this too.

The story I actually found quite disappointing. The tone is quite didactic, and the references to "modern" times are too obvious to miss, and too clunky to fit easily into the story. I would have stopped listening if it hadn't been for the superb quality of John Greenman's reading. The characters are subtly, but distinctly, voiced. Hank has an appropriately bossy, cocksure tone, leavened occasionally with wonderful notes of irony. The people from King Arthur's time sound suitably naive and credulous. Old people sound old, young people sound young, nobles sound arrogant, and poor people sound beaten down. I can't recommend this reading highly enough.