Zhanna d’Arc: Mark Twain

The amazing fate of an illiterate girl from a poor family who freed France from English invaders and ended his life at a stake on charges of heresy, is one of the most amazing phenomena in the history of mankind. When the English army already seized almost the whole of France, Jeanne d’Arc appeared in front of its exhausted king and raised the banner, which turned out to be a banner of victory and at the same time a fatal sentence to his banner. For five centuries, the name of the Virginy Virgin has been living in art: many novels, plays, poems and films have been devoted to her. One of the most famous works is the novel by Mark Twain, the greatest American writer, the author of the famous adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who painted the convincing image of Jeanne d’Arc, confirming the ideal of love and fidelity to his homeland at all times: “Love, mercy, strength, war, peace, poetry, music – all these concepts can be personified as you like; but a slender girl, in the girl, in the girl, in the girl. The prime of his first spring, with martyrdom …

Author
Twain Mark
Translator
Alexandrova Z.
Publisher
ABC, 2014
Series
Classic (soft)
Genre
Historical novel