Bibliograph

Historical romances, the prince and the pauper ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ; Personal recollections of Joan of Arc

Type

Label

Historical romances, the prince and the pauper ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ; Personal recollections of Joan of Arc

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Historical romances

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The Library of America series, 71

Sub title

the prince and the pauper ; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court ; Personal recollections of Joan of Arc

Summary

A work that Mark Twain himself considered his last finished and most important novel, The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, is a departure from Twain's usual comic and satirical spirit. Joan is a work of serious historical reflection that suggests that the English deliberately rigged the trial of Joan of Arc to convict her of witchcraft and heresy, a view that recent scholarship seems to support

Target audience

adult

Classification