![]() ![]() ![]() My best book is my Recollections of Joan of Arc. You shouldn’t read those books about bad boys! Why, the librarians won’t allow them in the children’s rooms in the libraries! Now don’t you go and imitate those rascals Tom and Huck. He said he had never seen Twain so cross. One day he got a chance to tell Twain how much he had enjoyed Tom and Huck. Twain lived in Taylor’s neighborhood when Taylor was a boy. The others needed no preparation and got none.Ī man named Coley Taylor told a story about what Twain said to him about Joan. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. I like Joan of Arc best of all my books, and it is the best I know it perfectly well. This book is such a departure from what we expect from him that he had it published anonymously so readers would judge the book without prejudice. This month we read Twain’s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc. So they have had a good taste of Mark Twain’s usual style. ![]() This is part of Diane’s Literature Course II SeriesĮach of the girls in my class has read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and last year we read Life on the Mississippi together. ![]()
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