Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Download or read book Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc written by Mark Twain and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serious, impassioned, meticulously researched story about a compelling heroine, the Maid of Orleans, Twain viewed the work both as a bid to be accepted as a serious writer and as a gift of love to his favorite daughter, Susy, who would die tragically three months after Joan of Arc was published. Although set in 15th century Europe, Joan of Arc is a key text for anyone who would understand the ambivalence that greeted the New Women in turn-of-the-century America. Twain's novel illuminates some of the major currents, and contradictions, of turn-of-the-century life and thought.