One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain’s ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court’ begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur’s Camelot.
Written in 1889, Mark ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court‘ is one of literature’s first genre mash-ups and one of the first works to feature time travel. It is one of the best known Twain stories, and also one of his most unique. Twain uses the work to launch a social commentary on contemporary society, a thinly veiled critique of the contemporary times despite the Old World setting.
While the dark pessimism that would fully blossom in Twain’s later works can be discerned in ‘A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ‘ the novel will nevertheless be remembered primarily for its wild leaps of imagination, brilliant wit, and entertaining storytelling. — Book promo @ goodreads.com
We did a walk this morning. The rain that came yesterday during the time we would have been walking did not amount to much but it would have got us wet. The total morning rain fall was 0.17″ with thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon and evening. The weather guessers called that exactly right, the timing for the rain and that we would get hail as well as rain. The hail came in marble size and lasted long enough to almost cover all the ground along with 0.74′ of rain. Fortunately no roof leak!