The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
by Mark TwainGenre: Drama
Setting:
Format of Original Source: Novella
Recommended Adaptation Length: Two Hours
Candidate for Adaptation? Promising
EXCERPT:
Huzza after huzza swept the army from van to rear; and as for Joan of Arc, there where she sat her horse gazing, clothed all in white armor, dreamy, beautiful, and in her face a deep, deep joy, a joy not of earth, oh, she was not flesh, she was a spirit! Her sublime mission was closing–closing in flawless triumph. To-morrow she could say, “It is finished–let me go free.”
COMMENTS:
A novel, rather in the same style as A Connecticut Yankee, in that Twain’s casual prose meets up with a medieval subject matter. Twain’s premise is that the manuscript is authentic Old French, and this is a translation of it into English.
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