"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1" by Mark Twain is a funny and clever story that mixes fantasy and history to think about big ideas. The story is centered around Hank Morgan, a smart guy from America. Hank gets knocked out, and when he wakes up, he's in King Arthur's time with knights and castles. Finding himself in this old, strange world, Hank decides to shake things up. He uses his knowledge of how modern technology to wow the people of Camelot into thinking he's a powerful magician. But as Hank tries to bring new ways of thinking and living to the old world, he learns it is not easy. Magic, power, and the ways people act catch him off guard. He then begins to realizes that changing the world can have big and surprising results. This story shows what happens when the old ways of the past meet new ideas, and it makes you think about what progress really means.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1.
By Mark Twain
A 19th-century American time-travels to Arthurian England and decides to use modern knowledge to turn the kingdom upside down.
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About the AuthorSamuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." Twain's novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." He also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and cowrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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