Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a caring and personal portrayal of one of the most intriguing figures in all history. "I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing." ~ Mark Twain Perhaps the greatest example of courage in all the stories we may publish, ARose Books is proud to reproduce this work from Mark Twain showing St. Joan D'Arc, a simple village girl who accomplished and overcame impossible impediments through her faith in God and her absolute surrender to God's Will. It shows what God can do with a person who has such faith and such surrender - mountains may be moved, battles won, countries freed!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ARose Books
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780972397070
• ISBN-10: 0972397078
• Artikelnr.: 26479154

Autorenporträt

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "The Great American Novel." Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After an apprenticeship with a printer, Twain worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to the newspaper of his older brother, Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1865, his humorous story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Twain was born shortly after a visit by Halley's Comet, and he predicted that he would "go out with it", too. He died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the "greatest American humorist of his age," and William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."