Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
1889
Novel
Comedy
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is told from the first-person perspective. There are three narrators. The opening unnamed narrator (presumably Twain) tells the framing story, a story within which one or more tales is related. The majority of the novel is told through 19th-century Connecticut resident Hank Morgan's perspective. A single chapter near the end of the book is told through 6th-century English resident Clarence's perspective. The unnamed narrator returns to conclude the story in the final chapter.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is written in the past tense.
The primary narrator Hank is an American from Connecticut who accidentally ends up in King Arthur's court. The word Yankee originally was used as an English insult toward Americans. Using the word in the title A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court emphasizes one of Twain's themes: the contrast between English or European ideas and American ideas.
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