Saint Joan of Arc Born, January 6Th, 1412, Burned as a Heretic, May 30Th, 1431, Canonised as a Saint, May 16Th, 1920 - Grove Great Lives
1st Grove Press Edition
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Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. In a clever, brisk voice, Vita Sackville-West tells the triumphant story of a French peasant girl raised in a country torn apart by the Hundred Years' War who rose from poverty to military greatness. With dazzling insight and clarity, Sackville-West breathes new life into Joan of Arc's beautiful and tragic story.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802138163 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 28 Jun 2001 |
Edition: | 1st Grove Press Edition |
DEWEY: | 944.026092 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 395 |
Weight: | 558g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 27mm |