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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (1889)
Travel with us through the ages as we delve into Mark Twain's hilarious and biting 1889 satirical novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The story centers on Hank Morgan, a practical, technologically savvy 19th-century American foreman from a Colt arms factory, who is somehow transported back in time after a blow to the head, landing him squarely in 6th-century Camelot. . We explore the novel's central conflict, which pits the Gilded Age ingenuity of modern America against the feudal ignorance and superstition of Arthurian England. Hank attempts to "civilize" the past by…
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