Ha! ;-) That is ironical, Wesley...but it's what tends to happen more often than not with writers and singers. Conan Doyle also got pretty fed up with Sherlock Holmes and tried eventually to kill him off, but enraged fans pressured him into bringing the great sleuth back into print.

In the case of "Joan of Arc", Mark Twain himself considered it to be far and away his favorite and most important book out of all the books that he had written...but he published it under an assumed name. He wanted it to be received strictly on its own merits, not as a "Mark Twain novel". That's how important the book was to him.

(It would have, of course, sold much better had he published it openly under his very well-known name.)