CONNECTICUT YANKEE

Tonight I finished reading A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT (1899, 2005) by Mark Twain . It was an interesting book; one that pretended to be fantasy, when it was really thinly veiled heresy: a religious and political “sacristy” holding forms of slavery, democracy, aristocracy. It is typically “Twain,” however; but not nearly so masterfully declaimed Twain as in PUDD’N HEAD WILSON, TOM SAWYER, HUCKLEBERRY FINN, INNOCENTS ABROAD, or ROUGHING IT, all which I have read and enjoyed. That said CONNECTICUT YANKEE is worth your while this winter 2020.