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Saint Joan of Arc
Vita Sackville-West
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Description for Saint Joan of Arc
Paperback. The controversial biography of "The Maid of Orleans" Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 698. Fine in fine cloth covers and slipcase. Slipcase showing light shelf wear, else remains as fine
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
434
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447214359
SKU
KSG0024729
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Ref
99-1
About Vita Sackville-West
The Hon. Lady Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and gardener. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage to Harold Nicolson, her passionate relationships with women and her gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent. Sackville-West's long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927, and her Collected Poems won the prize ... Read more
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