num_pages: 316
description: 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.
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: 102168
places: United Kingdom, Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, England
publisher: Bantam Classics