#a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

[forthegothicheroine]

The problem with most adaptations of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is that they may get the humor, but they miss the anger. It's a very angry book. The narrator is angry about serfdom, angry that they are forbidden to learn to read, angry that a flighty mistress can kill one for no reason and legally get away with it, angry that King Arthur is a good man for his time but until he's experienced all this himself he just doesn't get it. (It took me a while to get it, myself- that Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and Puddinhead Wilson, was probably talking about something more than medieval feudalism.) The only version I've seen that captures this is, of all things, A Knight in Camelot with Whoopi Goldberg.

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[salticid]

marking some twain

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[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Eclipse-themed screenings at local theaters.

#the dryden starting star trek before the eclipse fully ends is truly bold #rochester ny #eclipse #twilight #moon #sunshine #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #star trek

[publicdomaincharacters]

Here is a public domain character,Hank Morgan from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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[thebeautifulbook]

A YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT [aka A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT] by Mark Twain [aka Samuel L. Clemens]. (New York: Webster, 1889)

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[idkaguyorsomething]

anyways, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that two of the very first science fiction novels were respectively the world’s most pathetic college dropout having to deal with his son getting his hands on edgy bible fanfiction and a cowboy getting isekai’d into arthurian times who decides to take over the world

#they are both far more depressing than you’d expect #frankenstein #mary shelly's frankenstein #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #holy hells mark twain i know the timeline has to remain stable and all that shit but did you have to destroy EVERYTHING like that

[lifes-commotion]

Rhonda Fleming

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[rjalker]

I edited out the caption since I couldn't read half of it

[ID: A greyscale illustration from the book A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, showing a king with sword and shield, a pope, and a nobleman raising a glass of wine, all sitting or standing on the backs of a farmer who is belt double under their weight as he uses a scythe to harvest wheat. There is a rope or cloth around his neck that the nobleman pulls on like a reign, and the king has one foot directly on the back of the farmer's head. All of the rich people are fully clothes with expensive furs and cloths, and the farmer and barefoot, with nothing visible except his legs and arms. In the bottom right corner of this drawing is a smaller bubble with sillowet figures showing the farmer bucking off the three aristocrats like a horse, with his hands on the ground and his legs kicked back into the air, sending them all flying. End ID.]

This image is public domain.

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[gayboymint]

hank morgan thee guy ever

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[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: an old paperback copy of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. The drawing on the cover shows a knight in full armour with part of his helmet cracked open to allow for a pipe, holding a match, and wearing a small badge that says "The Boss". End ID.]

I read this on Project Gutenberg years ago and it has remained one of the most unhinged things I've ever read (though it makes more sense when you notice it's really just a thinly-veiled political treatise about how kings suck and society should be more Socialist), so when I saw this cover in a cavernous second-hand shop I had to get it. I wonder if there's a cover of the main character pointing a gun at Merlin, which I'm fairly sure he does at one point.

#Mark Twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court

[randomnumbers751650]

If I had the opportunity, I'd write a very weird crossover with Fate/Stay Night. Mark Twain wrote a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, about an engineer -Hank Morgan, Sir Boss - who somehow ended in the Arthurian Britain.

So, yeah, it's kind of an Isekai, but it'd be Saber reminiscing in a moment about her friend Sir Boss that talked a lot about the power of technology and how different his homeland was from Camelot, and then she'd get marveled at the world Sir Boss foresaw.

#fate/stay night #mark twain #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #i think that could be an interesting thing #but i didnt finish fsn #and i kinda let fgo aside #i can see it being a fgo event #like solving some pseudosingularity #involving saber helping sir boss spirit to move on #and itd also gove something for her to do #since shes so much in rhe background in fgo #and merlin being nasty about him haha

[salticid]

you know this just off the top of your head??

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[tinuvielsblog]

Alisande (Rhonda Fleming) really had it bad in this movie. Girl was practically on her knees the moment Bing Crosby whistles his way into court.

#old hollywood #a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court #rhonda fleming #bing crosby #classic hollywood

[annebrontesrequiem]

"He was great now; sublimely great. The rude statues of his ancestors in his palace should have an addition - I would see to that; and it would not be a mailed king killing a giant or a dragon, like the rest, it would be a king in commoner's garb bearing death in his arms that a peasant mother might look her last upon her child and be comforted."

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain

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[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Cover detail from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court By Mark Twain. Illustrated. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1917.

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[awolfinpeopleclothes]

The books I got over the weekend. I was already reading The House of Mirth, but my copy had a massive printing error.

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