Saint Joan of Arc

von Vita Sackville-West

412 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Grove Press
• ISBN: 9780802138163
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2001
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: Grove Atlantic, Inc.