A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court : A 19th Century Engineer, a Blow to the Head, and a Very Confused Round Table
After a blow to the head, a practical, wisecracking Connecticut engineer wakes up in sixth-century England — and immediately sets about "fixing" the Middle Ages with 19th-century know-how, from telephones to gunpowder, while King Arthur's knights look on in bewilderment. What starts as satire on medieval romance turns into something sharper: a warning about what happens when progress meets power without wisdom.
Twain at his funniest and most cutting — a time-travel fantasy that's really an argument about the century Twain actually lived in, wrapped in Round Table jokes that still land.
After a blow to the head, a practical, wisecracking Connecticut engineer wakes up in sixth-century England — and immediately sets about "fixing" the Middle Ages with 19th-century know-how, from telephones to gunpowder, while King Arthur's knights look on in bewilderment. What starts as satire on medieval romance turns into something sharper: a warning about what happens when progress meets power without wisdom.
Twain at his funniest and most cutting — a time-travel fantasy that's really an argument about the century Twain actually lived in, wrapped in Round Table jokes that still land.
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Mark Twain is de schrijversnaam van Samuel Clemens (1835–1910). Hij werkte als schrijver, humorist, ondernemer en uitgever. Hij wordt wel de 'vader van de Amerikaanse literatuur' genoemd. Bekend romans van zijn hand zijn De avonturen van Tom Sawyer en De avonturen van Huckleberry Finn.
