{"product_id":"2026200014062-secondhand-a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","title":"A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a sharp-witted, pragmatic 19th-century American engineer is knocked unconscious and wakes up in the court of King Arthur's Camelot? Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court answers that question with biting satirical brilliance, thrusting Hank Morgan — a no-nonsense factory foreman from Hartford — into a world of knights, sorcerers, and medieval superstition. Armed with nothing but his modern knowledge and considerable ingenuity, Hank sets about civilising the 6th century, introducing democracy, electricity, and industrialism to a bewildered chivalric order, all while outmanoeuvring the treacherous Merlin and navigating the absurdities of courtly life.\n\nBeneath its rollicking comedic surface, this masterwork of American literature mounts a fierce and unrelenting critique of monarchy, class privilege, the romanticisation of the Middle Ages, and the darker impulses of so-called progress. Twain's prose is razor-sharp and deceptively playful, luring the reader into laughter before delivering moments of profound moral weight. Illustrated here by Joseph Ciardello with an Afterword by T.E.D. Klein, this Reader's Digest edition presents the novel in a beautifully curated format — a timeless tale that asks whether a man armed with the future can truly save the past, or merely repeat its worst mistakes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49161014542555,"sku":"2026200014062-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0efa7a4e-a2d8-4b87-986a-3eb096922c73.png?v=1787189047","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014062-secondhand-a-connecticut-yankee-in-king-arthurs-court","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}