![]() ![]() To me this was a brilliant decision and one that impacts the entire tone of the book and allows for instructive character creation. I think the most important element of this book is that it is written from the fictional point of view of Joan’s childhood friend and later personal secretary. ![]() I will, however, tell you some of the magic Twain weaves into his version of her story. I am not going to tell much about the book because my delight was in knowing very little when I began. It is ongoing still, and bears character-defining fruit regularly. My Jeanne d’Arc journey began even before I picked up the book. ![]() The extremely American literary icon and humorist I knew and wanted to love was interested in an intensely spiritual French peasant girl born centuries before him? Why had I not heard of this?! I was intrigued to say the least. Just enough experience and knowledge must have collided to prepare me because I can remember the sense of awe, excitement and intense curiosity I felt when I learned that Mark Twain spent nearly a decade of his life perfecting this work. I don’t remember how I heard of Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc but my life has been different - better- ever since. ![]()
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