Joan of Arc - Volume 1
by Mark Twain
In 1429, a 17-year-old peasant girl receives a message from heaven that she must save France from English oppressors. For two years, these most likely heroes lead the rag army to victory, see the king crowned, and die in danger, being tortured by traitors. Mark Twain, America's most famous storyteller, was obsessed with the story of Joan of Arc and worked for 12 years to tell it in this novel, which he considered his masterpiece. Volume 2 of Joan Arc is also available
