A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism, but it is also one of Mark Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more ...

A Yankee mechanic is knocked unconscious in a fight and awakens to find himself at Camelot in AD 528. Condemned to death by the knights of the Round Table, he saves himself through scientific knowledge.

''I've struck it!'' Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. ''And I will give it away--to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.'' Thus, after dozens of false st...

Twain himself said, "I like Joan of Arc best among all my books." A deeply serious work celebrating the life of Joan and portraying, in the Maid, Twain's ideal of the True Woman.