{"product_id":"personal-recollections-of-joan-of-arc","title":"Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Mark Twain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan of Arc,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e a mere child in years, ignorant, impoverished, unimportant, one day heard the voices of God’s messengers. Their message: that she—by God’s command, in His protection, and by His strength—was to lead France’s armies in war, win back the nation from its foreign oppressor, and set the crown upon the head of its true king. Yet with France’s soldiers disheartened and dispersed, her peoples helpless and hopeless, her king irresolute and indifferent, surely hope—like the spirit of France itself—was dead. So it seemed, until Joan restored them to life and they rose to follow her, into battle, on to victory. And her reward for this? To be tried, tested, and ultimately betrayed by the same men who ought to have had care, not contempt, for her immortal soul. Condemned a heretic, Joan died a martyr and yet she lives on, not merely as a hero of war, but as a saint of God—the God who called her out of Domrémy and into his own wonderful light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc,\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eand there you will find it…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe fruit of Twain’s own twelve years of research, written over the course of two years, and regarded by Twain himself as the best and most significant of his many books, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Recollections of Joan of Arc \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautifully told chronicle of history and sanctity, exhilaratingly entertaining and profoundly moving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Twain \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e(1835–1910) was a world-renowned American essayist, humorist, and novelist. Best known for the canonical \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e, he was hailed by William Faulkner as “the father of American literature” and by William Dean Howells as “sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 396pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685953591\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100041765231,"sku":"978-1685953591","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1146_f3a545b8-5003-4417-90f6-0e68afde54e0.jpg?v=1781124948","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/personal-recollections-of-joan-of-arc","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}