num_pages: 512
description: 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.Critically deemed one of Twain’s finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and a disturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits of progress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains as powerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its first publication in 1889.
language: English
title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
titlecomplete: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
characters: King Arthur, Merlin (Arthurian wizard), Hank Morgan
genres: Fiction, Humor, Arthurian, Classics, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literature, Adventure
ratings_count: 102180
places: United Kingdom, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, England
publisher: Modern Library