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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
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Grove Press
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saint joan of arc: born, january 6th, 1412; burned as a heretic, may 30th, 1431; canonised as a saint, may 16th, 1920 - Sackville-West, Vita
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Synopsis "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.
