Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6, 1412, burned as a heretic, May 20, 1431, canonized as a saint, May 16, 1920 - Softcover

Sackville-West, V

Softcover

ISBN 10: 083982856X ISBN 13: 9780839828563

Publisher: G.K. Hall, 1984

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: G.K. Hall
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 083982856X
• ISBN 13: 9780839828563
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 383