In this acclaimed tour de force, Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire, from the pure joy of wild high jinks to deeply probing insights into the nature of man. Features a new Introduction by Leland Krauth. Original. The original American satirist Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur`s England. Branded by Twain`s aptitude for broad comedy and biting social satire, the grim truths of Twain`s Camelot-fear, injustice, ignorance-resound as clearly now as when it was written