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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Mark Twain

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Hank Morgan, a brash superintendent from a Connecticut arms factory, finds himself violently transported from 1879 to the year 528 in King Arthur's Britain. Captured by Sir Kay and condemned to die, he uses his knowledge of a coming solar eclipse to seize political power as "The Boss." Armed with 19th-century ingenuity and a deep disdain for feudal oppression, Hank sets out to modernize Camelot with secret factories, schools, and newspapers, all while battling the entrenched forces of magic, monarchy, and the Church. His satirical journey through a grotesquely romanticized past becomes a profound critique of progress, power, and the human cost of revolution.

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