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A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court: A Positronic Book
Paperback
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515403326
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Dec 29 2015
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Mark Twain's brilliant comic collision of nineteenth-century American ingenuity with the legendary world of Camelot. Hank Morgan, a practical Yankee mechanic from Hartford, is struck on the head and awakens in the age of King Arthur. Surrounded by knights, wizards, nobles, peasants, superstition, and medieval power structures, Hank decides to remake the past with modern knowledge, industrial confidence, and the absolute certainty that he knows better than everyone around him.
First published in 1889, Twain's novel is one of the great early works of time-travel fiction and one of his sharpest satires. The comedy is immediate: a modern man trying to organize, modernize, advertise, electrify, and outmaneuver the Middle Ages. But underneath the joke is a darker argument about technology, violence, class, monarchy, religion, empire, and the arrogance of progress. Twain turns the fantasy of improving the past into a warning about power in any age.
Readers drawn to classic science fiction, time-travel stories, Arthurian legend, American satire, comic adventure, and Mark Twain's restless attack on human folly will find this Positronic edition a natural fit. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court remains both wildly entertaining and bitterly intelligent: a speculative classic in which Camelot becomes the testing ground for modernity itself.
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