Presents A Reprint Of The Text Of First American Edition Of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Wherein A Nineteenth-century Mechanic Suffers A Blow To The Head And Wakes Up In King Arthur's Britain. Includes Original Illustrations By Daniel Beard And Contains Critical Reviews And Essays. The Text Of A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court -- Backgrounds And Sources -- King Arthur -- The Total Eclipse / Washington Irving -- The Acetic Saints / W.e.h. Lecky -- The King's Touch / W.e.h. Lecky -- Financing The Mansion House / W.e.h. Lecky. Composition And Publication -- The Author And The Novel -- The Tournament In A.d. 1870 / Samuel L. Clemens -- The Great Revolution In Pitcairn / Samuel L. Clemens -- Legend Of The Spectacular Ruin / Samuel L. Clemens -- The New Dynasty / Samuel L. Clemens -- To Mrs. Jervis Langdon / Samuel L. Clemens -- To Mrs. Cincinnatus A. Taft / Samuel L. Clemens -- Buying A Copy Of Morte D' Arthur / George Washington Cable -- From Mark Twain's Notebooks And Journals / Samuel L. Clemens -- The 1886 Reading At Governor's Island / From The New York Sun And The New York Herald -- Letters About A Connecticut Yankee / Samuel L. Clemens -- From The Autobiography Of Mark Twain / Samuel L. Clemens -- A Rejected Preface / Samuel L. Clemens -- The Dan Beard Illustrations -- Making The Illustration For A Connecticut Yankee / Daniel Carter Beard -- The Character Of The Yankee / Daniel Carter Beard -- To Dan Beard / Samuel L. Clemens -- To A Reader / Samuel L. Clemens -- Beard's Illustrations / Henry Nash Smith -- The English Edition -- Clemens, Chatto, And The English Edition / Dennis Welland. Criticism -- Early Views -- Nothing More Delicious / Sylvester Baxter -- His Wonder-story / William Dean Howells -- King Arthur Or Jay Gould? / From The London Daily Telegraph -- Mark Twain's New Book: A Satirical Attack On English Institutions / William T. Stead -- This Melancholy Product Of The American Mind / From The Boston Literary World -- He Has Not The Knowledge / Andrew Lang -- The Yankee Animal / Rudyard Kipling -- A Bull In The China-shop Of Ideas / Charles Whibley -- His Literary Worst And Best / Albert Bigelow Paine. Recent Criticism -- So Much Divine Comedy / John B. Hoben -- The Composition Of A Connecticut Yankee / Howard G. Baetzhold -- Revision And Intention In Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee / James D. Williams -- The Volcano / Kenneth S. Lynn -- A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court: The Machinery Of Self-preservation / James M. Cox -- Uncle Sam / Louis J. Budd -- The Ideas In A Dream / Henry Nash Smith -- Epoch-eclipse And Apocalypse: Special Effects In A Connecticut Yankee / David Ketterer -- The Meaning Of A Connecticut Yankee / Everett Carter. Samuel Langhorne Clemens ; Edited By Allison R. Ensor. Bibliography: P. 453-455.