Saint Joan Of Arc (Paperback, 1st Grove Press ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Grove Great Lives
Release date:	May 2001
First published:	May 2001
Authors:	Vita Sackville-West
Dimensions:	229 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	395
Edition:	1st Grove Press ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3816-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
LSN:	0-8021-3816-0
Barcode:	9780802138163

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