You might also like

More about Saint Joan of Arc

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 47 loyalty points

Book 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.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Saint Joan of Arc
• Subtitle: Born, January 6th, 1412; Burned as a Heretic, May 30th, 1431; Canonised as a Saint, May 16th, 1920
• Author: Vita Sackville-West
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 395
• EAN: 9780802138163
• ISBN: 9780802138163
• ID: 06575854
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 558 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 2001

Trending among others

---

---

---