{"product_id":"book-2d3k","title":"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1879, Colt Arms Factory superintendent Hank Morgan gets a crowbar to the head and wakes up in King Arthur's England of AD 528, replete with steel-plated knights, hefty horses, blushing ladies, vast castles, and a great oaken table the shape and size of a circus ring. Under this charming veneer roils a seething cesspit of slavery, superstition, criminal injustices legally wrought by Church as well as State, and hopeless despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever is the epitome of Yankee practicality and American sensibilities to do? Why, civilize the barbarians, of course, and drag them kicking and screaming into the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you only know the various comic-book and film adaptations of Mark Twain's \u003cem\u003eA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\u003c\/em\u003e, you're liable to imagine the book as a laugh riot, an exercise in anachronistic fun. Knights on bicycles! Knights in armor playing baseball! A newspaper named \u003cem\u003eThe Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano\u003c\/em\u003e! In fact, Twain's 1889 novel is seldom what we'd call funny. Instead, it's more the literary equivalent of the Fourth of July—a farrago of politics, preaching and fireworks.\" ~\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67718411518256,"sku":"BD2d3k","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/2d3k-Square-cover.png?v=1788563926","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-2d3k","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}