Couldn't resist that title, but really, the Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc as told to her page and secretary ought to give you an intimate look at what it might have been like to be a 17 year old savior. This is a long book, nearly 500 pages, so there was a lot to proofread. It demanded extra attention because there is an awful lot of French in the book (not too much in the way of phrases, but a lot of names of people and places), so there were a lot of accent marks to insert, some italicization. But also, this book is Mark Twain's favorite of his own works, so we had to reproduce it perfectly. He researched the rebel-saint's life for over ten years, and the somewhat indignant and somewhat infatuated account of her life reveals a sort of love that exists, however exhaustively, only imaginatively. It's pretty much the most beautiful book ever. You'll laugh; you'll cry. But you won't regret that you read an Exquisitely Formatted edition, since you'll find a great many errors in most Kindle editions.

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If you can believe it, these sell for nearly the same price.
Here you'll find an essay by Mark Twain on the subject of Joan of Arc
http://www.maidofheaven.com/joanofarc_mark_twain.asp
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