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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.
- Mark Twain
- 1889
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: Directed by Tay Garnett. With Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix. A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is a satirical novel by Mark Twain, first published in 1889. It is the story of Hank Morgan, a 19th-century resident of Hartford, Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported back in time to the court of King Arthur.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, satirical novel by Mark Twain, published in 1889. It is the tale of a commonsensical Yankee who is carried back in time to Britain in the Dark Ages, and it celebrates homespun ingenuity and democratic values in contrast to the superstitious ineptitude of.
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- CAMELOT. “Camelot—Camelot,” said I to myself. “I don’t seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely.” It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.
- KING ARTHUR’S COURT. The moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way
- KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND. Mainly the Round Table talk was monologues—narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped of their steeds and armor.
- SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST. It seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it was fresh, no doubt.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur.
Jul 7, 2004 · A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Credits: David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature: Subject: Fantasy fiction Subject: Satire Subject: Knights and knighthood -- Fiction Subject: Arthurian romances -- Adaptations Subject: Time travel -- Fiction Subject: Americans -- Great ...
