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Very few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several... Read Full Overview

Regarded by many as the most luminous example of Mark Twain's work, this fictional biography of Joan of Arc was purportedly written by Joan's page and secretary -- Sieur Louis de Cont?. (Twain's alter ego even shared the author's same initials -- S. L. C.) Told from the viewpoint... Read Full Overview

8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper . This unabridged edition contains all three books of the original edition. Mark Twain is better known for his bad boy stories Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn . Joan of Arc... Read Full Overview

Large size 8.5"x11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) print on cream paper with large (16-point) type and two column format . This unabridged edition contains all three books of the original edition. Mark Twain is better known for his bad boy stories Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn... Read Full Overview

Twain himself said, "I like Joan of Arc best among all my books." A serious, impassioned, meticulously researched story about a compelling heroine, the Maid of Orl ans, Twain viewed the work both as a bid to be accepted as a serious writer and as a gift of love to his favorite... Read Full Overview

ABOUT "PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS" Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on St. Joan of Arc. A work of fiction -an historical novel- it is however, the product of over twelve years of intense research; including many months in France doing archival research. Twain considered... Read Full Overview

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain which recounts the life of Joan of Arc. It is Twain's last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old.The novel is presented as a translation by "Jean Francois Alden" of... Read Full Overview

This historical novel purportedly written by Joan's longtime friend -- Sieur Louis de Conte -- discloses Twain's unrestrained admiration for the French heroine's nobility of character.

Twain, aware of his reputation as a comic, asked that each installment appear anonymously so that readers will treat the piece seriously. Originally, this novel was published as a serialization in Harper's Magazine beginning in April 1895. Regardless, his... Read Full Overview

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author andhumorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter... Read Full Overview

This exclusive publication of Mark Twain's book contains more than 350 pages of bonus material, including extensive excerpts from the transcripts of Joan of Arc's trial that focus on her mystical experiences. The abridged transcripts are translated and edited for readability... Read Full Overview

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). The last novel... Read Full Overview

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work-Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc-originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1895 as chapters attributed... Read Full Overview