Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9780483753372

Excerpt from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are his torical, 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 inas much as they existed in the English and other civilisations 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 day also. One is quite justified in inferring that Wherever one of these laws and customs was lacking in that remote time, its'place was com. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.