The Riddle of Mark Twain’s Passion for Joan of Arc

http://www.theawl.com/2012/04/the-riddle-of-mark-twains-passion-for-joan-of-arc Mark Twain’s obsession with Joan of Arc has to rank among the most baffling and least talked about enigmas in American literature. Even for those entrenched within the competitive world of Twain scholarship, stories like the one above are usually treated as interesting, but ultimately trifling, anecdotes, illustrative of the eccentricities of a predictably [...]