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"Hank Morgan, cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, wakes to find himself
in the England of King Arthur. The tough-minded Yankee, an embodiment of scientific enlightenment,
faces a world whose idyllic surface only masks the dark forces of fear, injustice, and ignorance. This
is the springboard which launches one of literature's most extraordinary excursions into fantasy. With
the agility of Mark Twain's unique virtuosity, this acrobatic tour de force moves from broad comedy to biting
social satire, and from the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing insights into the nature of man,
whose capacity for progress is matched only by his capacity for destruction. The reader is shaken by
laughter -- and something more than laughter -- as he falls under the book's enchantment and finds that the
grim truths of Mark Twain's Camelot strike a resoundingly contemporary note."
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