Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781411614420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Mark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was a failure in terms of sales and has remained obscure and largely out of print for more than a century since its publication. It is, in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel. The initial offering in the Litrix Library series (see also www.litrix.com).
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781411614420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Mark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was a failure in terms of sales and has remained obscure and largely out of print for more than a century since its publication. It is, in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel. The initial offering in the Litrix Library series (see also www.litrix.com).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781411614420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Mark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was a failure in terms of sales and has remained obscure and largely out of print for more than a century since its publication. It is, in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel. The initial offering in the Litrix Library series (see also www.litrix.com).
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (Annotated)
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented...
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's page and secretary. The work is fictionally presented...
The Complete Novels of Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mark Twain: Complete Novels
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN: 2291073737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3099
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 2291073737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 3099
Book Description
Joan of Arc
Author: Mary Gordon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143113973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only to be captured and burned at the stake as a heretic—all by the age of nineteen. Gordon does more than tell this gripping story—she explores Joan's mystery and the many facets of her inspiring life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143113973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"A master of the story form" (The New York Times) offers a fresh, revealing portrait of the legendary saint Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an army to victory and crowned the king of France, only to be captured and burned at the stake as a heretic—all by the age of nineteen. Gordon does more than tell this gripping story—she explores Joan's mystery and the many facets of her inspiring life.
Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses
Author: Régine Pernoud
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0812812603
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0812812603
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.
Mark Twain & France
Author: Paula Harrington
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be “American” in the second half of the nineteenth century. While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see Twain’s use of the French as a foil to help construct his identity as “the representative American.” Examining new materials that detail his Montmatre study, the carte de visite album, and a chronology of his visits to France, the book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826273777
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be “American” in the second half of the nineteenth century. While critics have generally dismissed Mark Twain’s relationship with France as hostile, Harrington and Jenn see Twain’s use of the French as a foil to help construct his identity as “the representative American.” Examining new materials that detail his Montmatre study, the carte de visite album, and a chronology of his visits to France, the book offers close readings of writings that have been largely ignored, such as The Innocents Adrift manuscript and the unpublished chapters of A Tramp Abroad, combining literary analysis, socio-historical context and biographical research.
In Freedom's Cause
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: London : Blackie
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
Publisher: London : Blackie
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
Mark Twain's Autobiography
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Joan of Arc
Author: Saint Joan (of Arc)
Publisher: Books
ISBN: 9781885983084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Compiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy.
Publisher: Books
ISBN: 9781885983084
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Compiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy.