![]() ![]() “I like Joan of Arc best of all my books,” he wrote shortly before his death, “and it is the best I know it perfectly well. Twain made similar comments in other settings. ![]() You are too young to understand and enjoy it now, but read it when you are older. My best book is my Recollections of Joan of Arc. “Now listen to what an old man tells you. “You shouldn’t read those books about bad boys!” the author scolded. I can see him yet, shaking that long forefinger at me,” Taylor recalled. “I had wanted to tell him how much I had enjoyed Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.”īut Twain’s response to the young boy’s praise was shocking. “I was glad that he was alone,” Coley Taylor recalled years later in an article in American Heritage. Twain was a familiar presence in the community, and the boy had awaited such a chance to express his admiration. A young boy approached Mark Twain one day, after spotting the famous author standing alone on a stone bridge in Redding, Conn. ![]()
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