Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics

ISBN-13: 9781598184938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 360 str.

Mark Twain

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Twain, aware of his reputation as a comic, asked that each installment appear anonymously so that readers will treat the piece seriously. Regardless, his authorship soon became known and the book edition published by Harper and Brothers in May 1896 credited Mark Twain. "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. 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. The others need no preparation and got none." -- Mark Twain Twain considered this book -- his last finished novel -- to be his most significant. Perhaps it is; certainly it's delightful -- but then, in retrospect, everything Twain did is good cause for delight.