A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

First published in 1889, this satire sends Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century Connecticut factory foreman, back to King Arthur's Britain after a blow to the head. Using technical knowledge and Yankee bluff, he rises at Camelot as "the Boss," introducing newspapers, schools, bicycles, and weapons while mocking chivalry, the Church, and inherited rank. The comic collision between industrial modernity and Arthurian romance darkens as Morgan's improvements meet superstition, slavery, and knightly violence. The novel is both a time-travel burlesque and an argument about whether progress imposed from above can remake a society without reproducing its cruelties in a new form.

Bound in pale grey cloth printed on all sides with a black and red design by David Hughes. Red slipcase. Red endpapers printed in black with repeating drawings.