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A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

Published in 1889, Connecticut Yankee is one of the world's first stories about
time travel. The seed for this novel was probably planted during MT's 1884-1885
reading tour for Huck Finn, when George Washington Cable bought him a copy of
Malory's Morte D'Arthur in an upstate New York bookstore. But MT's interest in
travel to "old worlds" was a longstanding one, as his first book shows. And his
interest in the British past was also a lifelong preoccupation, as can be seen
in texts like The Prince and the Pauper, or even the Memory-Builder game he
invented and patented to help American children learn the dates of England's
various monarchies. As MT's fantastic attempt to locate his time and place in
terms of its imagined pasts and its possible futures, Connecticut Yankee is
perhaps his most complex book.


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