Few people know that Mark Twain wrote a major work on Joan of Arc, and that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent 12 years in research and many months in France, studying the detailed accounts of her trial written by both the French and the English. This remains a remarkably accurate biography of the life and the mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. Paperback, 452 pages.