If youâre comfortable with technology and want to contribute directly, check out this ebookâs GitHub repository and our contributors section. To report typos, typography errors, or other corrections, see how to report errors. More detailsĪnyone can contribute to make a Standard Ebook better for everyone! Update imprint and colophon to account for multiple transcription/scan sources Update colophon/imprint boilerplate to new standards Read about which file to download and how to transfer them to your ereader. You may also be interested in our Kobo FAQ.Īdvanced epub â An advanced format that uses the latest technology not yet fully supported by most ereaders. Also download the Kindle cover thumbnail to see the cover in your Kindleâs library. The result is the story of one of the great women in history told by one of historyâs great storytellers.Ĭompatible epub â All devices and apps except Kindles and Kobos.Īzw3 â Kindle devices and apps. Twain has the fictional de Conte grow up with Joan, and so he is able to tell her story from her early childhood all the way through the trial and execution. To tell Joanâs story, Twain invented a memoirist, Louis de Conte, a fictionalized version of her real-life page, Louis de Contes.
Although a work of fiction, Twainâs research was time well spent: the known facts of Joanâs life, and especially the trial, are very accurate in their depiction. It was, in his words, âthe best of all my books,â and became his last finished novel.
When he finally decided to write a book about her, he researched it for a dozen years and spent two more years writing it. Twain first became fascinated with Joan as a teenager. After an ill-advised and short-lived truce, Joan is captured by the Burgundiansâ≏rench nobility who have aligned themselves with the Englishâand they try her for heresy and burn her at the stake. That army promptly lifts the siege of Orléans, throws the English out of the Loire valley, hands them another significant defeat at Patay, and marches all the way to Reims, where the dauphin is crowned King Charles VII. She manages to take her message to the dauphin, who after some persuasion places her at the head of his army. A young teenage girl hears voices that tell her she will deliver France from Englandâs oppression during the Hundred Years War.
The essential facts regarding Joan of Arc are well known. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Mark Twainġ51,994 words (9 hours 13 minutes) with a reading ease of 75.44 (fairly easy) Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
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