Saint Joan of Arc

Name: Saint Joan of Arc
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By Vita Sackville-West

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The captivating story of Joan of Arc is brought vividly to life by Vita Sackville-West. Readers travel back to fifteenth-century rural France to witness Joan as a humble shepherd girl visited by divine visions, transforming into the avenging virgin who revitalised a fractured France. Her remarkable journey leads her from leading troops to victory to being condemned as a heretic, before ultimately being canonised as a saint centuries later.
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This biography will captivate readers interested in historical figures, inspirational women, and French history, as well as those who appreciate literary biographies with rich storytelling.

The strange story of Joan of Arc, the obscure peasant girl who became the national saint of France, is retold in this celebrated, classic biography. Saint Joan lives for the reader on every page, as a shepherd girl in a remote part of fifteenth-century rural France, visited by visions of saints and angels;

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The captivating story of Joan of Arc is told by the great underrated writer Vita Sackville-West.

The strange story of Joan of Arc, the obscure peasant girl who became the national saint of France, is retold in this celebrated, classic biography. Saint Joan of Arc lives for the reader on every page, as a shepherd girl in a remote part of fifteenth-century rural France, visited by visions of saints and angels; as the avenging virgin who regenerated the soul of a torn and wretched France and led her troops to victory; and as a condemned heretic and witch, burned at the stake and, five hundred years later, canonised as a saint.

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Celebrated biographer Hermione Lee praises Sackville-West as a glamorous aristocrat and gifted writer, highlighting her thrilling life and the engrossing nature of her narrative style in telling Joan of Arc's story.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784873516

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 March 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 277g

Pages: 400

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About the Author

Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively before settling at Kent's Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, where she devoted much of her time to creating its now world-famous garden. Throughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men and women, and her unconventional marriage would later become the subject of a biography written by her son Nigel Nicolson. Though she produced a substantial body of work, amongst which are writings on travel and gardening, Sackville-West is best known for her novels The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931), and for the pastoral poem The Land (1926), which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. Sackville-West died on 2 June 1962 at her Sissinghurst home, aged seventy.