Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

A farmer’s daughter who could neither read nor write. At seventeen she took command of the armies of France.

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About this edition

She was a farmer’s daughter of Domrémy. At thirteen she began to hear her Voices. At seventeen she put on armour, took command of the armies of France, broke the siege of Orléans, and led her king to be crowned at Reims. At nineteen she was sold to her enemies, tried by the Church, and burned alive at Rouen. Five centuries later she was declared a saint.

Mark Twain worked a dozen years on Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896) and, to the end of his life, called it the best of all his books and the one he was proudest of. Published at first anonymously, it is told by the Sieur Louis de Conte, Joan’s page and secretary, who loved and followed her from the fields of Domrémy to the stake at Rouen. It is Twain’s one work of pure reverence: by turns funny, tender, thrilling, and finally overwhelming.

This edition sets the complete text afresh, all three Books and the Conclusion, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• Mark Twain (1835–1910)
• The complete 1896 novel, all three Books and the Conclusion
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 510 pages