He achieved great success as a writer and public speaker. While a reporter, he wrote a humorous story, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,' which proved to be very popular and brought him nationwide attention. He was a failure at gold mining, so he next turned to journalism. After toiling as a printer in various cities, he became a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River, before heading west to join Orion. He also worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called 'the Great American Novel', and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. The contrast between her and her century is the contrast between day and night. When we reflect that her century was the brutalest, the wickedest, the rottenest in history since the darkest ages, we are lost in wonder at the miracle of such a product from such a soil. Judged by any of them, judged by all of them, it is still flawless, it is still ideally perfect it still occupies the loftiest place possible to human attainment, a loftier one than has been reached by any other mere mortal.

It can be measured by the standards of all times without misgiving or apprehension as to the result.

But the character of Joan of Arc is unique. Judged by the standards of one century, the noblest characters of an earlier one lose much of their luster judged by the standards of to-day, there is probably no illustrious man of four or five centuries ago whose character could meet the test at all points. To Arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Excerpt from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Vol.

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