Familiar with Twain's Joan of Arc?! - It was the work that forced me to become familiar with the Library of Congress at an impressionable young teenage. This was the only place I could imagine finding the original French transcripts of her trials, and I had to see them because I was sure Twain must have made up the stirring quotations he used. - What a thrill to find them in the trial transcript! - (I concluded that Twain was an amazing writer and that the Library of Congress was a cool place). Why is Twain's Joan so little known? Surely Shaw's Joan is more memorable, briefer as a reading assignment, and not nearly so sentimental.Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn are so firmly planted on reading lists that many of those who don't take to them (I didn't), & not fortunate enough to stumble on to the Connecticut Yankee, may not explore much further. And then, you have to be lucky: I almost didn't read it myself; most of the stuff on Joan of Arc was so boring, why go after this "minor work"? (Every library seems to have Tom and Huck; Joan is harder to find). - Justine Roberts Mill Valley, CA