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Klappentext "The book relates the tale of Hank Morgan, an engineer from 19th century Hartford Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. While there he uses his knowledge of modern technology to appear as though he is a magician. Despite his best intentions, Hank's attempts to modernize the past bring about a tragic end. A bittersweet depiction of the Arthurian legend through the eyes of a 19th century American ..."--Amazon.com. Zusammenfassung The Yankee, suddenly transported from his native nineteenth-century America to the sleepy sixth-century Britain of King Arthur and the Round Table, vows brashly to boss the whole country inside of three weeks. And so he does. Emerging as The Boss, he embarks on an ambitious plan to modernize Camelot - with unexpected results. Inhaltsverzeichnis ILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT Preface A Word of Explanation 1. Camelot 2. King Arthur's Court 3. Knights of the Table Round 4. Sir Dinadan the Humorist 5. An Inspiration 6. The Eclipse 7. Merlin's Tower 8. The Boss 9. The Tournament 10. Beginnings of Civilization 11. The Yankee in Search of Adventures 12. Slow Torture 13. Freemen! 14. "Defend Thee, Lord!" 15. Sandy's Tale 16. Morgan le Fay 17. A Royal Banquet 18. In the Queen's Dungeons 19. Knight-Errantry as a Trade 20. The Ogre's Castle 21. The Pilgrims 22. The Holy Fountain 23. Restoration of the Fountain 24. A Rival Magician 25. A Competitive Examination 26. The First Newspaper 27. The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito 28. Drilling the King 29. The Small-Pox Hut 30. The Tragedy of the Manor House 31. Marco 32. Dawley's Humiliation 33. Sixth-Century Political Economy 34. The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves 35. A Pitiful Incident 36. An Encounter in the Dark 37. An Awful Predicament 38. Sir Launcelot and Knights to the Rescue 39. The Yankee's Fight with the Knights 40. Three Years Later 41. The Interdict 42. War! 43. The Battle of the Sand-Belt 44. A Postscript by Clarence REFERENCES EXPLANATORY NOTES NOTE ON THE TEXT...
