About this audiobook
Hank Morgan, a practical American from Connecticut, finds himself in the legendary world of King Arthur. Knowledge that belongs to his own century gives him an unexpected advantage among people whose understanding of power and authority is very different. He begins to imagine how technology and new institutions might transform the society around him.
Mark Twain develops the encounter through comic contrasts between modern confidence and medieval custom. Hank challenges inherited privilege and superstition, yet his certainty about his own solutions raises questions of its own. Technical ability does not automatically bring an understanding of the people who must live with its consequences.
The novel combines fantastic adventure with political and social satire. It examines inequality, coercion and the temptation to treat progress as a plan that can simply be imposed. Its changing tone allows the appeal of invention to coexist with doubts about the power of any single person to remake a world.
