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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Twain, Mark 1835-1910 (Author). Stein, Bernard L. (Added Author). Beard, Daniel Carter. (Added Author).

Summary: 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 schoolmasters have frowned on this device, calling it dirty names like crib, crutch, pony. But the truth is that highly educated and motivated people have learned to read a foreign language this way. The great German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who knew many ancient and modern languages, acquire.

Record details

ISBN: 0520948076
ISBN: 9780520948075
Physical Description: 1 online resource (504 pages)
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Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.