Published in 1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is Mark Twain’s satirical comic novel in which a practical nineteenth-century engineer named Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious and wakes up in sixth-century Camelot. Armed with modern knowledge, he sets about transforming Arthurian England with Yankee ingenuity — while Twain uses the setup to satirize both medieval romanticism and the overconfident optimism of the Gilded Age.
Funny, inventive, and ultimately quite dark, the novel is one of Twain’s most intellectually provocative works. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and let Hank Morgan revolutionize the round table.