

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author: Mark Twain
Narrator: Jeff Hays
Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Published: 05/26/2020
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Humorous, Science Fiction
Author: Mark Twain
Narrator: Jeff Hays
Unabridged: 12 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Spoken Realms
Published: 05/26/2020
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Humorous, Science Fiction
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was the pen name and alter ego of Samuel Clemens, an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is considered one of the fathers of American literature and is remembered most fondly for his classic novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Jeff Hays and Annie Ellicott are the star voices of the breakout audiobook production company Soundbooth Theater. They’ve voiced over two dozen audiobooks together, and there is no end in sight. Both have roots in music, Jeff being a composer and bass player, and Annie a renowned jazz singer and songwriter.
Forget Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this is Twains´ greatest work. And his unknown, shorter stories, all doing the only thing to make humankinds´ extreme stupidity and cruelty bearable, by satirizing them in a way no other classic author could or dared. Although some of it was released after hi......more
2023 Like probably most of you, I hate to DNF a book. It kills something in a my soul a little. But I just really couldn't go on any further with this story back in 2017. Recently, I listened to a really interesting lecture, King Arthur: History and Legend, and the professor mentioned this and said h......more
Most people think they know this story - but they don't - they just know the fish-out-of-water story that is just the surface of this book; this is really a story of about the biggest problems Mark Twain observed in his time period, including slavery, abuses of political power, unchecked factory gr......more
I don't know why this book doesn't rank higher among the classics & isn't discussed more. Twain manages to highlight more of our human & modern society's ills & graces than any other book I've read. This is not just a man out of his time, but a journey of discovering just how large, fast changes, se......more
I managed to be quite disappointed in this book. Yes, some parts are clever and funny, especially near the beginning; but by midway the joke had gone stale, and by the end I was elated to be done with it. The main problem, for me, was that Twain’s satire is almost wholly directed at the mythologiz......more