A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
by Mark Twain
- First published
- 1889
- Language
- English
- VocaScene level
- B2
- Genre
- science fiction
- Length
- About 118k words
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This English science fiction is listed at B2 in the VocaScene catalog. The level is guidance for choosing reading material, not a formal language assessment. Signed-in readers can select unfamiliar words, see meanings and save vocabulary for later practice.
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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 day also. One is quite justified in inferring that whatever one of these laws or customs was lacking in that remote time, its place was competently filled by a worse one.
I said I had not heard of it. He was so little interested--just as when people speak of the weather--that he did not notice whether I made him any answer or not. There was half a moment of silence, immediately interrupted by the droning voice of the salaried cicerone:
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