About this audiobook
Mark Twain’s “Yankes at King Arthur’s Garden” is the first novel in literature about travel in time, brilliant satirical antiutopia and a brilliant narrative of the confrontation of progress with medieval prejudices. The main character, entrepreneurial and practical American engineer Hank Morgan from Connecticut in the nineteenth century, after the struggle gets a blow to his head and comes into himself in the legendary England of the sixth century – in the time of the Knights of the Round Table, the magic of the Wizard Merlin and the rule of King Arthur. Using his knowledge of physics, chemistry and technology, Hank quickly gains the status of the "all-powerful wizard" ahead of Merlin, and begins a large-scale modernization of the medieval society. He conducts electricity, build factory, introduces newspapers and tries to vaccinate the ideas of democracy and humanism. However, the attempt to forcefully rebuild the feudal world faces fanatism, centuries-old surrender and cruel human nature. Mark Twain, with a thin humor, bright irony and deep dramatism, laughs the romantic image of the Middle Ages, while warning of the danger of blind technocratic progress and human retardation. ** About what the book in three words:** Time, Progress, Knights. **Who to read:** For fans of alternative history and fantasy about time movements, lovers of acute social satire, fans of Mark Twain's creativity, and everyone who is interested in thinking about the price of human progress.
