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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain’s social satire novel about a Connecticut engineer who gets transported back in time to the court of King Arthur, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.
When Hank Morgan, an engineer from East Hartford, Connecticut, suffers a blow to the head, he inexplicably finds himself transported from his nineteenth-century home to Middle Ages England during the reign of King Arthur. Using his knowledge of science and technology, Hank must navigate an unfamiliar medieval world whose idyllic façade covers a harsh and unforgiving underbelly.
When Hank Morgan, an engineer from East Hartford, Connecticut, suffers a blow to the head, he inexplicably finds himself transported from his nineteenth-century home to Middle Ages England during the reign of King Arthur. Using his knowledge of science and technology, Hank must navigate an unfamiliar medieval world whose idyllic façade covers a harsh and unforgiving underbelly.
352 pages, Paperback
Published May 26, 2026
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Mark Twain
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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." His 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." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote 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." His 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." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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