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Sign: New York - Library Walk - A quote from Mark Twain’s book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’"

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18 E 41st St #1503, New York, NY 10017, USA
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...At the end of an hour we saw a far-away town sleeping in a valley by a winding river; and beyond it on a hill, a vast gray fortress, with towers and turrets, the first I had ever seen out of a picture.

"Bridgeport?" said I, pointing.

"Camelot," said he.

Mark Twain (1835-1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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The Library Walk, is a venture launched in 1996 by the New York Public Library, Grand Central Partnership and New Yorker Magazine, in which are embedded in bronze plaques quotes from well-known books, or those dealing with books and literature. The panels designed by artist Gregg LeFevre were laid in 1998 from the New York Public Library building along 41st Street.

The plaque contains an excerpt from the book by the American author Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, a book in which a resident of Connecticut goes back in time to England during the time of King Arthur (sixth century AD).

The illustration on the plaque depicts on the one hand the United States of the late 19th century with factories and skyscrapers, and on the other hand Camelot Castle.





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