In his preface to Connecticut Yankee, Mark Twain declares that he will settle the issue of the
divine right of kings in his next novel. That next novel is Personal Recollections of Joan of …

Most readers have not agreed with Mark Twain in liking Joan of Arc best of all his novels,
particularly because his hand is almost invisible in it. He presents the story as a translation …

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably America's greatest author. More …

This is a comparative gender history examining the biographies of two women lecturers of
the nineteenth century, Anna Dickinson and Kate Field, who were representative of Susan B …