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- Publisher Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on St. Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work, spending 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival research. A book to inform and inspire its readers.
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About "Joan of Arc"
1999 is the "Year of Joan" with the recent Joan of Arc television min-series (now on video -- see page 17) and two more feature films to be out in the theater this Fall and Winter.Take advantage of this great interest in Joan by these specials on the most popular book on her by America's greatest storyteller, Mark Twain. Twain spent 12 years of research on this fascinating and historically accurate of St. John and considered it his most important book.
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Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on St. Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work, spending 12 years in research and many months in France doing archival research. A book to inform and inspire its readers.
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Meet the Author
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the village of Florida, Missouri. He attended the ordinary western common school until he was twelve, the last of his formal schooling. In a span of fifteen years he was successively a typesetter, a steamboat pilot, a soldier for three weeks, a silver miner, a newspaper reporter, and a bohemian in San Francisco known as "Mark Twain." But in 1865, deeply in debt, he acknowledged a talent for "literature, of a low order, i.e., humorous." In the next forty years, he published more than a dozen books and hundreds of shorter works, includiC
