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