a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

     

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist an writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's travelling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.

Trivia about a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

  • In 1949 Bing Crosby played this title New Englander who travels back to a time of knights & ladies
  • Chapter 3 of this Mark Twain novel introduces us to the "Knights of the Table Round"
  • A blow on the head sends a man back to Camelot in this 1889 Mark Twain novel
  • The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself "A Yankee of the Yankees....and nearly barren of sentiment"
  • In this Mark Twain story, a mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight & awakens in Camelot in 528 A.D.
  • "By my authority as executive I threw Merlin into prison -- the same cell I had occupied myself"
  • This 1889 novel contrasts American homespun ingenuity with the Dark Ages' superstition & ineptitude
  • 1889: By Mark Twain
  • (Alex Trebek delivers the clue from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT.) Appropriately, Mark Twain resided here in Hartford while he worked on this 1889 novel about a Hartford man who travels back in time to medieval England
  • In this Twain novel, a New Englander saves himself by predicting a solar eclipse
  • Hank makes guns, gets into fight, wakes under tree & is captured by Sir Kay; remembers about an eclipse...
  • Chapter 1 of it begins, "'Camelot--Camelot,' said I to myself. 'I don't seem to remember hearing of it before'"
  • Chapter 19 of this Mark Twain tale is "Knight Errantry as a Trade"
  • Hank Morgan, a mechanic from Hartford, is the title character of this Twain work
  • A-Rod is truly in trouble in this time-traveling Twain text from 1889

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