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: Social satire
Time of Work: Late nineteenth and early sixth centuries
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

*England. Apart from the frame that surrounds the main narrative and a brief interlude in Gaul toward its end, the entire novel is set in southern England during a roughly ten-year period that begins in June, 528 c.e. Before selecting this time period, Mark Twain contemplated writing a novel contrasting the feudal institutions of the Hawaiian kingdom, which he had observed in the 1860’s, with those of the modern West. He decided instead to set his story in England of the sixth century after reading Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Mort d’Arthur (1485). As is...

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