
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court
by Mark Twain, Henry Clarence Pitz
FictionKnights and knighthoodAmericansTravelArthurian romancesAdaptationsTime travel
Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has been transported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-century England and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuity of the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at once satiric, anarchic, and darkly comic.
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