We hope you will take a few moments to watch the film (with English subtitles) embedded below. (3) It is striking that in the Oxford edition of Twains Joan of Arc, critical essays included in the volume by major. We thank them for promoting this under-appreciated piece of Twain’s legacy. We are so proud to have played our small part in that collaboration and offer a hearty congratulations to Professor Jenn and the other filmmakers. They underlined the way research was made accessible to a large audience and the obvious international scholarly collaboration the film was the fruit of.” And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing.

“The jury, comprised of an iconic anchorwoman from France 3, a state-owned TV channel, a journalist from the same channel and two photographers/film-makers said that the movie stood out as exceptionally well-written, especially intriguing as to its topics and very well-made thanks to the wealth of quality images provided by the Mark Twain Project. 984 reviews 'I like Joan of Arc best of all my books and it is the best I know it perfectly well.The novel was first published in Harper's Magazine under the real name of Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Jenn, who is also a professor at Universite Lille, reports, Joan of Arc, his last completed novel, is a dream of his childhood, a work of his artistic maturity and, in many ways, a counterpoint to his previous works. It prominently features Elmira College alumna, Olivia Clemens, and discusses the importance of Elmira and Quarry Farm in Twain’s life. The film made its US debut in August of 2017 here in Elmira, as part of our 8th Quadrennial Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. The film, written by recent Quarry Farm Fellow, Ronald Jenn, and directed by Patrice Thery, uses pictures and documents from French and American archives, including our own, to familiarize its audience with the author, the subject of his passionate interest, and, finally, the novel, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, which he published in 1896.

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