A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) is a great satirical novel by Mark Twain about a 19th century Yankee traveling back in time to medieval Britain. This novel provides a critique of contemporary society, even though it takes place in archaic Britain.
This replica of the original edition of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, containing 235 illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard, presents one of Twain's most unique stories.

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910), pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer who became one of America's greatest and most popular writers. Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, the state which influenced much of his writing. Twain acquired fame for his travel stories such as Life on the Mississippi (1883), and for his boyhood adventure novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).