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When Yankee engineer Hank Morgan finds himself transported back in time and space to King Arthur's 6th century England, he uses his scientific knowledge to convince the populace that he is a powerful magician. But when he embarks on an effort to modernize the country, Hank quickly makes even more powerful enemies.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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Mark Twain

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Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic.

Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur's England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way througha medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance.

Considered by H. L. Mencken to be "the most bitter critic of American platitude and delusion...that ever lived," Twain enchants readers with a Camelot that strikes disturbingly contemporary notes in this acclaimed tour de force that encompasses both the pure joy of wild high jinks and deeply probing insights into the nature of man.

With an Introduction by Leland Krauth
And an Afterword by Edmund Reiss

A satirical novel originally published in 1889, this is the tale of a commonsensical Yankee who is carried back in time to Britain in the Dark Ages, and it celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values in contrast to the superstitious ineptitude of a feudal monarchy.

Category - Fiction / Action & Adventure

Format - Paperback

Condition - Fair

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Est. Publication Date - Jun 2019