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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By Mark Twain

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Cover: Amfortas Released by Galahad (c. 1893-1901), oil study for The Quest of the Holy Grail murals by Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1911)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 historical novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Camelot
  2. 2: King Arthur's Court
  3. 3: Knights of the Table Round
  4. 4: Sir Dinadan the Humorist
  5. 5: An Inspiration
  6. 6: The Eclipse
  7. 7: Merlin's Tower
  8. 8: The Boss
  9. 9: The Tournament
  10. 10: Beginnings of Civilization
  11. 11: The Yankee in Search of Adventures
  12. 12: Slow Torture
  13. 13: Freemen
  14. 14: “Defend Thee, Lord”
  15. 15: Sandy's Tale
  16. 16: Morgan Le Fay
  17. 17: A Royal Banquet
  18. 18: In the Queen's Dungeons
  19. 19: Knight-Errantry As a Trade
  20. 20: The Ogre's Castle
  21. 21: The Pilgrims
  22. 22: The Holy Fountain
  23. 23: Restoration of the Fountain
  24. 24: A Rival Magician
  25. 25: A Competitive Examination
  26. 26: The First Newspaper
  27. 27: The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito
  28. 28: Drilling the King
  29. 29: The Smallpox Hut
  30. 30: The Tragedy of the Manor-House
  31. 31: Marco
  32. 32: Dowley's Humiliation
  33. 33: Sixth Century Political Economy
  34. 34: The Yankee and the King Sold As Slaves
  35. 35: A Pitiful Incident
  36. 36: An Encounter in the Dark
  37. 37: An Awful Predicament
  38. 38: Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue
  39. 39: The Yankee's Fight with the Knights
  40. 40: Three Years Later
  41. 41: The Interdict
  42. 42: Chapter 42
  43. 43: The Battle of the Sand Belt
  44. 44: A Postscript by Clarence