"Who wrote ""The Prince and the Pauper"" and ""A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court""?"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court series.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court the idea behind "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" in December 1884 and worked on it between 1885 and 1889. The principal part of the writing was done at Twain's summer home at Elmira, New York and was completed at Hartford, Connecticut. It was first published in England by Chatto & Windus under the title "A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur" in December 1889. Writer and critic William Dean Howells called it Twain's best work and "an object-lesson in democracy". The work was met with some indignation in Great Britain as it was perceived as "a direct