A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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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 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.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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