Friday, February 28 — Fiction Fun! Reads Mark Twain
7:30 p.m. in the Guild Room.

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889). This is, of course, a classic, one of the recommended books by a great American author. It’s definitely enjoyable – and, by our standards, light. It’s a satire on modernity, tradition, chivalry, capitalism, democracy, monarchy, etc., etc. It’s also an early work of time travel – and it involves especially great time travel for a twenty-first century reader, since it takes its readers back to the late nineteenth century and to a somewhat legendary early Medieval period.