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

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.