Mark Twain 40 min read

The Yankee and Sandy ride out across a dreamlike medieval countryside, and the satire's teeth begin to show.

In this stretch of Twain's 1889 classic, Hank Morgan travels the sylvan roads of Arthurian Britain with the garrulous Sandy, the idyllic scenery giving way to encounters that expose the cruelty beneath the age's romance. Read it for Twain's lyrical landscapes and the sharpening of his assault on the injustices dressed up as chivalry.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

40 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).