Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense o

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

"A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur

A serious, impassioned, meticulously researched story about a compelling heroine, the Maid of Orleans, Twain viewed the work both as a bid to be accepted as a s