One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in ...
In this anti-religious tale, Twain denies the existence of a benign Providence, a soul, an after-life, and even reality itself. As the Stranger in the story a...
A young man finds himself lost on a northern Scottish Isle in a storm, taken in by the hospitality of a young woman and her mother. But he soon discovers ther...