This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan the quintessential selfreliant NewEnglander who brings to King Arthurs Age of Chivalry the great andbeneficent miracle... » 

This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan the quintessential selfreliant NewEnglander who brings to King Arthurs Age of Chivalry the great andbeneficent miracles of nineteenthcentury engineering and American ingenuity.Through the collision of past and present Twain exposes the insubstantialityof both utopias destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his owneras faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in Americanintellectual history A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is at oncea hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities a romantic fantasy autopian vision and a savage anarchic social satire that only one of Americasgreatest writers could pen. «