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Charlemagne's rearguard is ambushed in a Pyrenean pass, and Roland will not blow his horn for help until his temples burst. Four centuries later Italian poets were still writing epics about him.
Scott built the Middle Ages everyone still pictures: tournaments, Norman lords over conquered Saxons, Robin Hood in the greenwood, and Rebecca, a Jewish healer tried for witchcraft, who takes the novel over.
Knocked cold in a Hartford arms factory, Hank Morgan wakes in Camelot and sets about industrializing it. The comedy runs a long way before Twain turns it into mechanized slaughter.