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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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| connecticut_yankee_king_arthurs_court_jg_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip | 64Kbps MP3 ZIP | 325 MB |
| Audio Files | 128Kbps MP3 | Ogg Vorbis | 64Kbps MP3 |
| 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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![[5.0 out of 5 stars]](/images/star.png "[5.0 out of 5 stars]")
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.