Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Twain, Mark
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"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well." -Mark Twain Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896) was Mark Twain's last completed novel, offering a portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the French heroine and a national symbol of France. At the age of seventeen, she led a French army to defeat the English during the Hundred Years' War. In 1430, she was captured by a group of French nobles allied with the English and was burned at the stake by the English. In 1920, she was canonized as a Catholic Saint. Although not as…mehr

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"I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well." -Mark Twain Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte (1896) was Mark Twain's last completed novel, offering a portrait of Joan of Arc (1412-1431), the French heroine and a national symbol of France. At the age of seventeen, she led a French army to defeat the English during the Hundred Years' War. In 1430, she was captured by a group of French nobles allied with the English and was burned at the stake by the English. In 1920, she was canonized as a Catholic Saint. Although not as well-known as some of Twain's other works, this jacketed hardcover replica with drawings by illustrator Frank DuMond is a beautiful piece of historical fiction.
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Autorenporträt
Mark Twain (1835-1910), geboren als Samuel Langhorne Clemens, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Humorist und Dozent, der für seinen Witz und seine lebendige Darstellung des amerikanischen Lebens im 19. Er wird weithin als einer der größten amerikanischen Autoren angesehen. In seinen Werken setzt sich Twain häufig mit Themen wie Ethnie, Gesellschaft und Moral auseinander. Zu seinen bekanntesten Romanen gehören Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer und Die Abenteuer des Huckleberry Finn, die als Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Literatur gelten.