A 19th-century Yankee is transported to King Arthur's Britain and tries to modernize it.
Books mentioned in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (4)
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory: “From time to time I dipped into old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book, and fed at its rich feast of prodigies and adventures”
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding: “However, I had read "Tom Jones," and "Roderick Random," and other books of that kind, and knew that the highest and first ladies and gentlemen in England had remained little or no cleaner in their talk, and in the morals and conduct which such talk implies, clear up to a hundred years ago; in fact…”
The Adventures of Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett: “However, I had read "Tom Jones," and "Roderick Random," and other books of that kind, and knew that the highest and first ladies and gentlemen in England had remained little or no cleaner in their talk, and in the morals and conduct which such talk implies, clear up to a hundred years ago; in fact…”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life bearable I must do as he did--invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy.”