A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1889
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—time travel
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early sixth centuries
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Fantasy, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Politics, Nineteenth century, Social issues, New England, England or English people, Time travel, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Fantasy, Middle Ages, Sixth century, Inventions or inventors, Knights or knighthood, Feudalism, Royal courts or courtiers, Chivalry
- Locales: England, New England, Hartford, CT
The Plot
The novel is told within a frame set around 1889. During a day tour of England’s Warwick Castle, the anonymous frame- narrator meets an American— later identified as Hank Morgan—who relates how he was transported back to the sixth century. When he was a foreman in a Connecticut arms factory in 1879, an employee knocked him unconscious; he awakened in En-gland in c.e. 528. That night, Morgan leaves a manuscript containing his story with the narrator, who stays up reading it. Morgan’s own first-person account forms the novel’s main narrative.
Morgan’s...
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