John Hertz’ contribution to Collectingsf.com in June is a review of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889):

Six years before Wells’ Time Machine (1895) this story, operated by time travel but barely exploring it, is placed in the theater of Aristocracy and the Common Man, like The Prince and the Pauper (1882), Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), and perhaps Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)…