Saint Joan of Arc - 9780802138163
Un libro in lingua di Sackville V. West edito da Grove Pr, 2001
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Saint Joan of Arc
- Sottotitolo: Born, January 6th, 1412, Burned As a Heretic, May 30th, 1431, Canonised As a Saint, May 16th, 1920
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Sackville V. West
- Editore: Grove Pr
- Collana: Grove Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Giugno '01
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Christian women saints France Biography
- Pagine: 395
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0802138160
- EAN-13: 9780802138163