![]() After studying both the English and French accounts of her story, he wrote, in a later essay, in 1904, that Joan of Arc was the “wonder of the ages stainlessly pure, in mind and heart, in speech and deed and spirit. Twain felt a true, deep admiration for the French saint - even though he was known to be a Presbyterian. The others needed no preparation and got none.” ![]() And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. ![]() Twain himself admitted this was not only his personal favorite but also his best-written book: “I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best I know it perfectly well. Ryan states in his article for Patheos, Twain spent 12 years studying, researching and collecting information for his book, including the investigation that ended up clearing Joan of Arc’s name 25 years after her martyrdom. But his visits to France’s National Archive to read the transcripts of trial that took the saint to the stake are even less known.Īs Stephen K. ![]() The fact that Twain’s last completed novel, published when he was 61 years old, is a biography of Joan of Arc, is not so well known. ![]()
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