Mark Twain's Best Book?
Many people are surprised to hear that Mark Twain wrote a
major novel based on the life of Joan of Arc, known in French as Jeanne
d'Arc, and by her friends and countrymen and women la pucelle, the
maid. They're often even more surprised to discover that it is possibly his
best work, and that he liked it best of his many books, and spent years
researching the text in French archives, and refining it in countless drafts.
Mark Twain was convinced that Joan of Arc, now a Catholic
saint, was among the most unique figures in history, a genuine rare
personality, even rarer for being so pure and incorruptible. His high
estimation of St. Joan comes through in the pages of his novel, and if she were
any other character one could argue she is written far too perfect to be
believable. But this is Joan of Arc. The author declared that he’d written the
novel out of love – his love of Joan, or the character he saw in her. Twain,
such a noted skeptic, believes that Joan was called of God, that she
heard real heavenly voices.
Twain published the novel in serialized version toward the
end of his literary career, when he was well-known, under an assumed identity
who had purportedly translated a manuscript by a (fictional) friend and
chronicler of St. Joan. A new edition of the book by Ignatius Press includes an
original essay by Mark Twain in which he says of his heroine: “She is easily
and by far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.”
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