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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Vita Sackville-West, Sackville-West Vita
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2001
• EAN: 9780802138163
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3816-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Grove Great Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Soteriology, Relating to Christian people & groups, c 1920 to c 1929, Biography & non-fiction prose, CULTURAL HERITAGE / French, peasant girl;British;church;saint;victories;death