A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain

A man named Hank Morgan, also known as the Yankee, works at a factory in Hartford, Connecticut in the late 1800s. During a fight, Hank is hit in the head and loses consciousness. He wakes up in a strange place, under an oak tree on the outskirts of Camelot...

"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" was written in 1889 by Mark Twain. This novel is a satire of life in the Middle Ages, and is considered by many to be one of the earliest science fiction books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E-BOOKARAMA
• Release date: Dec 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9788829585069

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Missouri in 1835, the son of a lawyer. Early in his childhood, the family moved to Hannibal, Missouri – a town which would provide the inspiration for St Petersburg in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After a period spent as a travelling printer, Clemens became a river pilot on the Mississippi: a time he would look back upon as his happiest. When he turned to writing in his thirties, he adopted the pseudonym Mark Twain ('Mark Twain' is the cry of a Mississippi boatman taking depth measurements, and means 'two fathoms'), and a number of highly successful publications followed, including The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Huckleberry Finn (1884) and A Connecticut Yankee (1889). His later life, however, was marked by personal tragedy and sadness, as well as financial difficulty. In 1894, several businesses in which he had invested failed, and he was declared bankrupt. Over the next fifteen years – during which he managed to regain some measure of financial independence – he saw the deaths of two of his beloved daughters, and his wife. Increasingly bitter and depressed, Twain died in 1910, aged seventy-five.