Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Unabridged)
Written by Mark Twain
Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G
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Mark Twain's "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" tells the story of the legendary French heroine through the eyes of her fictional childhood friend, Sieur Louis de Conte. The novel, narrated at an old age by Louis, recounts Joan's life in three parts: her simple beginnings in Domrémy, her rise to military leadership inspired by divine voices, and her tragic downfall at trial. Through Louis's perspective, Twain paints a portrait of Joan as a courageous, deeply religious young woman caught in the complex political and religious turmoil of 15th-century France. The novel explores themes of faith, leadership, and the enduring legacy of heroism.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, novelist, and lecturer. Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a setting which would serve as inspiration for some of his most famous works. After an apprenticeship at a local printer’s shop, he worked as a typesetter and contributor for a newspaper run by his brother Orion. Before embarking on a career as a professional writer, Twain spent time as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi and as a miner in Nevada. In 1865, inspired by a story he heard at Angels Camp, California, he published “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” earning him international acclaim for his abundant wit and mastery of American English. He spent the next decade publishing works of travel literature, satirical stories and essays, and his first novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873). In 1876, he published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a novel about a mischievous young boy growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River. In 1884 he released a direct sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which follows one of Tom’s friends on an epic adventure through the heart of the American South. Addressing themes of race, class, history, and politics, Twain captures the joys and sorrows of boyhood while exposing and condemning American racism. Despite his immense success as a writer and popular lecturer, Twain struggled with debt and bankruptcy toward the end of his life, but managed to repay his creditors in full by the time of his passing at age 74. Curiously, Twain’s birth and death coincided with the appearance of Halley’s Comet, a fitting tribute to a visionary writer whose steady sense of morality survived some of the darkest periods of American history.
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