Joan Thursday
Author | : Louis Joseph Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Louis Joseph Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Louis Joseph VanCe |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781494196660 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.
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Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526112795 |
This sourcebook collects together for the first time in English the major documents relating to the life and contemporary reputation of Joan of Arc. Also known as La Pucelle, she led a French Army against the English in 1429, arguably turning the course of the war in favour of the French king Charles VII. The fact that she achieved all of this when just a seventeen-year-old peasant girl highlights the magnitude of her achievements and also opens up other ways of looking at her story. For many, Joan represents the voice of ordinary people in the fifteenth century; the victims of high politics and warfare that devastated France. Her story ended tragically in 1431 when she was put on trial for heresy and sorcery by an ecclesiastical court and was burned at the stake. This book shows how the trial, which was organised by her enemies, provides an important window into late medieval attitudes towards religion and gender, as Joan was effectively persecuted by the established Church for her supposedly non-conformist views on spirituality and the role of women. Presented within a contextual and critical framework, this book encourages scholars and students to rethink this remarkable story. It will be invaluable reading for those working in the fields of medieval society and heresy, as well as the Hundred Years’ War.
Author | : Loui Joseph Vance |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-07-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781506138138 |
"[...]blared out an accompaniment, and they strode away, turning left and marching up the centre aisle to the stage.... Joan marked, with pulses that seemed to beat in tune to the drumming, the wistful beauty of many of the painted faces with their aloof eyes and fixed smiles of conscious self-possession, the richness of their uniforms, their bare powdered arms, the pretty legs in their silken casings. Oblivious to the libidinous glances of the goggling men they passed, she envied them one and all-the meanest and homeliest of them even as the most proud and beautiful-this chance of theirs to act, to be admired, to win the homage of the herd.... She awoke as from idyllic dreams to find herself again in a Third Avenue car, homeward bound. But still her brain was drowsy with memories of the splendour and the glory; fragments of haunting melody ran through her thoughts; and visions haunted her, of herself commanding a similar meed of adoration....[...]".
Author | : Regine Pernoud |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1999-10-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312227302 |
In a distinguished English translation, the bestselling French book now considered the standard biography of Joan published just in time for the upcoming film by Luc Besson.
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Total Pages | : 2236 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louis Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2018-04-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781987620153 |
Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Author | : Louis Joseph 1879-1933 Vance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781374396050 |
Author | : Louis Joseph Vance |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781527950276 |
Excerpt from Joan Thursday a Novel Uniform with a thousand sisters of the shop-counters, she was yet mysteriously different. Men looked twice in passing; after passing some turned to look again. Her face, tinted by the glow of the western sky, was by no means poor in native colour: a shade thin, its regular features held a promise, vague, fugitive, and provoking. Her hair was a brown which hardly escaped being ruddy, and her skin matched it, lacking alike the dusky warmth of the brune and the purity of the blonde. She was neither tall nor short, but seemed misleadingly smaller than she was in fact, thanks to the slightness of a body more stupidly nourished than under-nourished or immature. Her eyes were brown and large, and they were very beau tiful indeed when divorced from the vacancy of weary thinking. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Joan Littlewood |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 601 |
Release | : 2016-07-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474233244 |
'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but ready, world. Today, we remember this irresistible force with love and gratitude.' (Peter Brook) Along with Peter Brook, Joan Littlewood, affectionately termed 'The Mother of Modern Theatre', has come to be known as the most galvanising director of mid-twentieth-century Britain, as well as a founder of so many of the practices of contemporary theatre. The best-known work of Littlewood's company, Theatre Workshop, included the development and premieres of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Brendan Behan's The Hostage and The Quare Fellow, and the seminal Oh What A Lovely War. This autobiography, originally published in 1994, offers an unparalleled first-hand account of Littlewood's extraordinary life and career, from illegitimate child in south-east London to one of the most influential directors and practitioners of our times. It is published along with an introduction by Philip Hedley CBE, previously Artistic Director of Theatre Royal Stratford East and Assistant Director to Joan Littlewood.