A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author:	Mark Twain
Publisher:	Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889
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Book Type:	Novel
Genre:	Fantasy
Sub-Genre Tags:	Alternate History (Fantasy) Sword and Sorcery Comic Fantasy
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Film & Television Adaptations

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Fox Film Corporation
3/14/1921

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Fox Film Corporation
4/6/1931

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Paramount Pictures
4/22/1949

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Synopsis

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Mark Twain's classic tale of Hank Morgan, a resident of 19th century Hartford Connecticut who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. A classic satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court pokes fun at the romanticized notions of chivalry and the idealization of the middle ages. A delightful and enchanting tale, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court shows Twain at his satirical best.

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new readers.