Joan of Arc
- Author Mark Twain
- Narrator Jim Hodges
- Publish Date 5 March 2019
- Run Time 15 hours and 55 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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 to the fictitious author Sieur Louis de Conte. When the public found out that Twain was actually the author, many were suspicious, thinking Twain was perpetrating some kind of a joke. Twain's biographer Albert Paine defends Twain saying it is actually his greatest writing: "Considered from every point of view, Joan of Arc is Mark Twain's supreme literary expression, the loftiest, the most delicate, the most luminous example of his work."
Critics Review
“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”
“It is an extraordinary (and baffling) literary phenomenon that Mark Twain, who was not disposed to see God at work in the melancholy affairs of men, should have been so galvanized by the life and achievement of this young woman that he devoted years of his life to this book about her.”
“Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.”
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