5/28/2023 0 Comments Mark twain's book on joan of arcWe find almost nothing like the vernacular sparkle or outrageous humor of Twain’s better-known works. The mysteries multiply when we open the book. How did the creator of American icons like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn come to write the life and death of a fifteenth-century French girl? Why would a man with so strained a relationship to Christianity write such an earnest novel about a Roman Catholic martyr? Since when did the great American humorist become a hagiographer? Today, fans of Twain still find themselves scratching their heads. Twain knew the book would confuse readers who expected his usual fare: when Harper’s Magazine first released installments of the novel beginning in 1895, he insisted it be published anonymously. Joan of Arc, he left us one of the great conundrums of American literature.
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