Joan
of Arc
by Mark Twain, Jean Francois
Alden (Translator)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens spent 12 years reseaching this book and considered
it his best work. Db.
Book Description: When JOAN OF ARC was first published in Harper's
magazine in 1895, the reading public did not recognize Mark Twain behind
it. It is ostensibly a translation of Sieur Louis de Conte's memoirs, the
one person who was with Joan during the three important stages of her life:
as a visionary village peasant, as a military genius and as the defendant
at her trial. The narrator, quiet, retiring and sentimental, is quite unlike
the true author.
Twain was fascinated by Joan. He spent 12 years in research and made
many attempts before finally getting the story right. He wanted to laud
Joan for her unique role in history. He was able to do so after studying
contemporary accounts written by both sides, the French and the English.
Beyond
the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc
by Polly Brooks
Reading level: Young Adult
Regarded as one of the best biographies of the Maid of Orleans
Book Description: The king was going mad . . . So begins Polly
Schoyer Brooks's account of one of history's most compelling stories and
one of the world's most popular heroines-Joan of Arc. Brooks tells us of
a fifteenth-century France ravaged by war, plague, and religious conflict;
of a king who suffered fits of madness and his weak son who made a disappointing
successor; and of a peasant girl from the countryside who accomplished
what appeared to be miracles by rallying the dispirited French nation with
her desire to see the rightful king rule. Little more than a year after
her astounding triumphs-uniting the nation and securing the throne for
Charles VII with her victory over the English at Orlean-nineteen-year-old
Joan was imprisoned on charges of witchcraft and sorcery, tried for heresy,
and burned at the stake. Polly Schoyer Brooks's detailed narrative unveils
the spirited young woman who became a patron saint and continues to inspire
courage and faith.
Joan
of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
by Regine Pernoud
Paperback from Scarborough House
1994
Joan
of Arc (Penguin Lives)
by Mary Gordon
Hardcover: 176 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x
7.80 x 5.44
Publisher: Viking Press; (March 20, )
ISBN: 0670885371
Joan
of Arc
by Diane Stanley
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Joan
of Arc and the Hundred Years' War in World History
by William W. Lace
Library Binding from Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Joan
of Arc: The Lily Maid
by Margaret Hodges, Robert Rayevsky
School & Library Binding from Holiday House
An
Army of Angels : A Novel of Joan of Arc
Joan
of Arc : Her Story
by Regine Pernoud et al.
The peasant girl who led an army against the English and placed Charles
VII on the French throne has inspired countless books since her death at
age 19. While others have claimed Joan the Maid (as she called herself)
for every cause from feminism to working-class radicalism, this meticulous
volume by two French scholars sticks close to the known facts. The authors
make extensive use of contemporary documents that bring to life the turbulent
political scene in which Joan operated as well as her forceful personality.
Joan followed the directives of voices she believed were sent to her by
God; her deep piety, self-assurance, decisiveness, and shrewd intelligence
radiate from her letters and from her responses to hostile questioning
at the rigged trial that resulted in her being burned alive as a heretic
in 1431. General readers may be intimidated at first by a detailed narrative
studded with lengthy quotations, but those who persevere will discover
a story all the more moving because it is not manipulated to make a modern-day
point. This English translation updates the 1986 French volume's bibliography,
supplements the biographies in part 2 with sketches of historical figures
less familiar outside of France, and generally makes the book more accessible
for English-language readers. --Wendy Smith - Amazon.com
Paperback: 330 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.88 x
9.23 x 6.12
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; (November )
ISBN: 0312227302
Joan
of Arc : In Her Own Words
by Willard R. Trask (Translator), Joan (Editor), Edward S. Creasy (Afterword)
Paperback: 178 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x
8.02 x 5.08
Publisher: Turtle Point Pr;
ISBN: 1885983085
France in the Middle Ages : 987-1460 : From Hugh Capet to Joan of
Arc (A History of France)
by Georges Duby, Juliet Vale (Translator)
Listed under French History
Saint
Joan of Arc
by Vita Sackville-West
Book Description: 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.
Joan
of Arc (Wishbone Classics, No 4)
by Patrice Selene (Author)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 128 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.36 x
7.62 x 5.12
Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks;
ISBN: 0061064181
Joan
of Arc : A Military Leader
by Kelly Devries
Fresh
Verdicts on Joan of Arc (New Middle Ages)
by Bonnie Wheeler (Editor), Charles T. Wood (Editor)
DK
Readers: Joan of Arc (Level 4: Proficient Readers)
Joan
of Arc
by Josephine Poole, Angela Barrett
Paperback from Dragonfly
Joan
of Arc: A Spiritual Biography (Lives & Legacies Series)
by Siobhan Nash-Marshall
Book Description: Joan of Arc is one of the most enigmatic figures
of history, and interest in the eccentric French maiden has never ceased
since she was burnt on the stake in 1431. Siobhan Nash-Marshall tells her
lively story, and interprets her life from the spiritual point of view.
Hardcover: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.69 x
8.43 x 5.61
Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder; (December )
ISBN: 0824523504
Joan
of Arc: Her Story
by Regine Pernoud, Marie-Vronique Clin, Jeremy Duquesnay Adams, Marie-Veronique
Clin
Paperback from St. Martin's Press
Personal
Recollections of Joan of Arc (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Mark Twain
Paperback from Dover Pubns
Saint
Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
by Bernard Shaw, Stanley Weintraub, Ayot St Lawrence, Joley Wood
Paperback from Penguin USA (Paper)
Saint
Joan of Arc
by John Beevers
Paperback from Tan Books & Publishers, Inc.
Special Order
Saint
Joan of Arc (A&E Biography)
by Jeremy Roberts
Library Binding from Lerner Publications Company
The
Spiritual Way of St. Jeanne D'Arc
by George H. Tavard
Paperback from Liturgical Press
Eloquent
Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc
by Maud Burnett McInerney
Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan
