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“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others need no preparation and got none.” ― Mark Twain
8 de mar. de 2018 · 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; as the avenging virgin who regenerated the soul of a torn and wretched France and led ...
15 de out. de 1999 · After reading many books on Joan, older and newer than this one, I have to say this is the best book for somebody trying to get an understanding of Joan of Arc as she actually was - not casting her in a military, religious, or modern political light but just putting together what can be told of the story. Other works are good, but this one is ...
- Régine Pernoud, Marie-Véronique Clin
1 de mai. de 2001 · Books. Saint Joan. George Bernard Shaw. Penguin, May 1, 2001 - Drama - 160 pages. Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of Shaw’s powerful historical drama about Joan of Arc, which led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature—part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin Classic With Saint Joan, which distills many of the ...
Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial.
242 ratings39 reviews. FIRST IMAGE BOOKS EDITION. 1991 trade paperback, Vita Sackville-West (All Passion SPent). Joan of Arc was fourteen when she first heard the voices. She 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.
Saint Joan of Arc is a historical novel written by Nobel Prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw. First published in 1924, the book tells the story of the life and trial of Joan of Arc, a young peasant girl who claimed to have been divinely inspired to lead the French army to victory against the English during the Hundred Years' War.
