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I actually read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court recently. It's one of those things where I knew the whole story going in because pop culture had remade it several times for both children and adults. I got Star Wars the exact same way. But I recently listened through the original on LibreVox.
Twain apparently wrote it to poke fun at a friend of his who wrote stories about noble knights errant, which is why he creates an ancient people who are perfectly ignorant and perfectly gullible, that stories of "rescuing maidens from a giant" were extremely embellished stories of buying pigs back.
Then there's the entire aspect of a modern engineer teaching a historical people new technology. Twain makes a BIG deal of "Arkansas journalism" and convincing knights to carry advertising billboards with them which would have been very modern and American to a 19th century man. But also he manages to set up a printing press in a land that doesn't understand pulp paper, a telephone network in a land that doesn't understand electricity...in apparently a couple years?
Me? I think I'm an above average candidate for this scenario, I'd die in a boiler explosion attempting to build a steam engine.