Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words (Joan Books) - Softcover

Arc, Joan Of

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885983085 ISBN 13: 9781885983084

Publisher: Turtle Point Press / Books & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Compiled and translated by Willard Trask, with an historical afterword by Sir Edward Creasy. "The details of the life of Joan of Arc form a biography which is unique among the world's biographies in one respect, " wrote Mark Twain: "it is the only story of a human life which comes to us under oath, the only one which comes to us from the witness stand." Using only material compiled from the transcripts and testimonies of St. Joan's condemnation trials, Willard Trask has arranged her words into a unique autobiography. Trask was Ford Madox Ford's personal secretary, and later a National Book Award winner and a recipient of Bollingen Foundation grants for his work in medieval and primitive poetry.

About this title

Product Description:

Joan of Arc The story of a young French peasant girl who led an army to help crown a king and was burned at the stake for her efforts has never lost its power to move us. Yet neither movies nor books about Joan of Arc have anything like the impact of her own words--as written here, by turns simple, poetic, inspiring, political, wise, and passionate.

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtle Point Press / Books & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1885983085
• ISBN 13: 9781885983084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188