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The INTERNET WIRETAP First Electronic Edition of
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT
by
MARK TWAIN
(Samuel L. Clemens)
Copyright, 1889 and 1899, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS
This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN.
From The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XVI
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
Electronic Edition by <dell@wiretap.spies.com>
Released to the public June 1993
PREFACE
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in
this tale are historical, and the episodes which are
used to illustrate them are also historical. It is
not pretended that these laws and customs existed in
England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended
that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other
civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that
it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to
have been in practice in that d . . .