false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178728811m/826706.jpg 826706 38 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 attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides, the French and the English. Because of Mark Twain's antipathy to institutional religion, one might expect an anti-Catholic bias toward Joan or at least toward the bishops and theologians who condemned her. Instead one finds a remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. The very fact that Mark Twain wrote this book and wrote it the way he did is a powerful testimony to the attractive power of the Catholic Church's saints. This is a book that really will inform and inspire. 3189378 1886 Joan of Arc total:746|5:9|4:10|3:3|2:5|1:2| 746 2995 1321 159 4 1 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 11 10:16:23 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 10:22:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 12:38:01 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 16:18:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 06 03:51:50 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 10:51:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 14:20:18 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 21:20:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Mar 06 22:03:23 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 22:05:24 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 12:53:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 12:59:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:01:36 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:07:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 17 13:27:55 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 21 12:25:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 16 02:49:40 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 19:52:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 09:05:25 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 09:41:48 -0700 2008
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