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  • Joan of Arc

  • Written by: Mark Twain
  • Narrated by: Jim Hodges
  • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Joan of Arc

Written by: Mark Twain
Narrated by: Jim Hodges
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Publisher's Summary

Most people are unaware that Mark Twain spent over a decade researching Saint Joan of Arc and wrote what he considered to be his greatest work - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - originally published in Harper's Magazine in 1895 as chapters attributed to the fictitious author Sieur Louis de Conte.

When the public found out that Twain was actually the author, many were suspicious, thinking Twain was perpetrating some kind of a joke. Twain's biographer Albert Paine defends Twain saying it is actually his greatest writing: "Considered from every point of view, Joan of Arc is Mark Twain's supreme literary expression, the loftiest, the most delicate, the most luminous example of his work."
Public Domain (P)2019 Made for Success, Inc.
Classics Historical Fiction Fiction
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Delightful Story

I really loved the retelling of this classic. A wonderful and bizarre true tale which shows a nuanced view of good and evil in France's medieval landscape through Joan D'arc's 3rd person perspective.

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Wonderful story!

I loved this book however, the one drawback for me was the narrator's voice was not a good fit for Joan of Arc. I am sure they chose a male narrator as the story is told from the perspective of her male friend, however, much of the story is told as if Joan is speaking and the voice the narrator uses for her takes away from the story in my opinion.

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Horrible narrator

I’m sorry but it’s impossible to focus on the story because of the narrator. He’s too flamboyant.

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