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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by using American humorist and creator Mark Twain. The e-book was at the beginning titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.In the ebook, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan gets a severe blow to the pinnacle and is by some means transported in time and space to England in the course of the reign of King Arthur. After a few preliminary confusion and his capture with the aid of one in every of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he's without a doubt in the beyond, and he makes use of his expertise to make people believe that he's a powerful magician. He tries to modernize the past for you to make human beings's lives higher, but ultimately he's not able to prevent the dying of Arthur and an interdict against him through the Catholic Church of the time, which grows terrified of his power.Twain wrote the book as a burlesque of Romantic notions of chivalry after being inspired by a dream in which he changed into a knight himself, critically inconvenienced via the burden and cumbersome nature of his armor. It is a satire of feudalism and monarchy that also celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values even as thinking the ideals of capitalism and results of the Industrial Revolution. It is amongst numerous works by using Twain and his contemporaries that mark the transition from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era of socioeconomic discourse.

In Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank Morgan awakes from a blow to the head only to find that he has been mysteriously transported back in time. It is early medieval England, the time of King Arthur and Hank is taken to the Camelot castle by a Knight of the King's. Ridiculed for his funny manner and dress sense, and sentenced to burn at the stake, Hank recovers through an incredible stroke of luck, and in doing so convinces the superstitious King and his subjects that he possesses great powers.

Rare edition with unique illustrations. This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America’s greatest writers could pen.