Mark Twain ~7 hr read

A practical 19th-century Yankee is knocked cold and wakes in Camelot, where he sets about dragging the Dark Ages into the industrial future.

Twain's 1889 masterpiece drops Hank Morgan, a Connecticut arms-factory foreman, into King Arthur's Britain, where he parlays a little modern know-how (and a well-timed eclipse) into the role of the kingdom's second-most-powerful man. What begins as broad comedy sharpens into one of literature's great satires, of chivalry, superstition, monarchy, and the darker uses of technological power. Read it for the funniest and most furious of all time-travel novels, from America's sharpest pen.

In its time

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

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).