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Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Author:Mark Twain In 1429, a 17-year-old peasant girl receives a message from Heaven that she is to rescue France from its English oppressors. Within two years this most unlikely of heroines leads a ragtag army to victory, sees the king crowned, and dies at the stake, martyred by traitors.