A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtBy: Mark Twain Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic. Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthurs England. After using his knoweldge of an upcoming solar eclipse to escape a death sentence, Hank must then navigate his way through a medieval world whose idyllic surface masks fear, injustice, and ignorance. Considered by H. L. Mencken