Glad I'm not the only Twainiac who feels that way about Joan of Arc. Although I am on a life-long mission to read every published piece by Mark Twain, whose writings have enriched my life beyond measure, and although I have regularly found great pleasure in nearly all his works, major or minor, long or short, dark or light, masterpiece or flawed, and so on .... Joan of ARc is the one work of his I simply could not force myself to continue, after just a few chapters. At that point, I was in the mind of Dorothy Parker when she said (in regard to some other work): "This is not a book to be put down lightly but to be hurled with some force . . . ." Steve Hoffman Takoma Park MD