Saint Joan of Arc: Born, January 6th, 1412; Burned as a Heretic, May 30th, 1431; Canonised as a Saint, May 16th, 1920
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 tel…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3816-3
- EAN: 9780802138163
- Produktnummer: 9453906
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 395 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.7 cm 558 g
- Auflage: Grove Press
- Gewicht: 558
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