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The Yankee (or Hank Morgan) The central character and narrator of most of the book, his name is not given until close to the end. He is identified in various ways by the other characters in the book, most often by the title given to him by the common people of England, "The Boss." He is practical, business-minded, hard-working, determined ...
Earlier film versions of Twain's story include the 1920 Fox-Mark Twain Co. film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, directed by Emmett J. Flynn and starring Harry Myers (see the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20; F1.0780); and the 1931 Fox film A Connecticut Yankee, directed by David Butler and starring Will Rogers (see the AFI ...
A Connecticut Yankee is a 1931 American Pre-Code film adaptation of Mark Twain 's 1889 novel, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It was directed by David Butler to a script by William M. Conselman, Owen Davis, and Jack Moffitt. It was produced by Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century Fox ), who had earlier produced the 1921 silent ...
Nov 2, 2004 · Books. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mark Twain. Penguin, Nov 2, 2004 - Fiction - 384 pages. Mark Twain moves from broad comedy to biting social satire in this literary classic. Cracked on the head by a crowbar in nineteenth-century Connecticut, Hank Morgan wakes to find himself in King Arthur’s England.
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In A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Hank Morgan travels back in time from nineteenth-century America to sixth-century England, where he becomes the second-most powerful man in King Arthur ’s kingdom. In this position, he tries to single-handedly establish an industrial civilization 13 centuries ahead of its time.
