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Author : Robert Repino
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616956875

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D'Arc by Robert Repino Pdf

With the fragile interspecies peace that followed the War With No Name under assault from land and sea, Sheba and Mort(e) have no choice but to take up their arms and enter once again into the conflict that threatened to tear them apart. “Repino's dog, cat, and beaver soldiers are nakedly real, as honest as any characters in modern fiction. As horrible as it may sound, may The War With No Name never end." —Corey Redekop, author of Husk In the aftermath of the War With No Name, the Colony has been defeated, its queen lies dead, and the world left behind will never be the same. In her madness, the queen used a strange technology to uplift the surface animals, turning dogs and cats, bats and bears, pigs and wolves into intelligent, highly evolved creatures who rise up and kill their oppressors. And now, after years of bloodshed, these sentient beasts must learn to live alongside their sworn enemies—humans. Far removed from this newly emerging civilization, a housecat turned war hero named Mort(e) lives a quiet life with the love he thought he had lost, a dog named Sheba. But before long, the chaos that they escaped comes crashing in around them. An unstoppable monster terrorizes a nearby settlement of beavers. A serial killer runs amok in the holy city of Hosanna. An apocalyptic cult threatens the fragile peace. And a mysterious race of amphibious creatures rises from the seas, intent on fulfilling the Colony’s destiny and ridding the world of all humans. No longer able to run away, Sheba and Mort(e) rush headlong into the conflict, ready to fight but unprepared for a world that seems hell-bent on tearing them apart. In the twilight of all life on Earth, love survives, but at a cost that only the desperate and the reckless are willing to pay.

Author : Régine Pernoud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 9780812812602

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Joan of Arc by Herself and Her Witnesses by Régine Pernoud Pdf

An historical biography of fifteenth-century saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc, that relies on the letters and testimony given at her trial.

Author : Helen Castor
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571284641

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Joan of Arc by Helen Castor Pdf

Acclaimed historian Helen Castor brings us afresh a gripping life of Joan of Arc. Instead of the icon, she gives us a living, breathing young woman; a roaring girl fighting the English, and taking sides in a bloody civil war that was tearing fifteenth century France apart. Here is a portrait of a 19-year-old peasant who hears voices from God; a teenager transformed into a warrior leading an army to victory, in an age that believed women should not fight. And it is also the story behind the myth we all know, a myth which began to take hold at her trial: that of the Maid of Orleans, the saviour of France, a young woman burned at the stake as a heretic, a woman who five hundred years later would be declared a saint. Joan and her world are brought vividly to life in this refreshing new take on the medieval world. Helen Castor brings us to the heart of the action, to a woman and a country in turmoil, a world where no-one - not Joan herself, nor the people around her, princes, bishops, soldiers or peasants - knew what would happen next.

Author : Pam Pollack,Meg Belviso,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399542947

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Who Was Joan of Arc? by Pam Pollack,Meg Belviso,Who HQ Pdf

Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her beliefs, Joan of Arc became a Catholic saint and has since captured the world's imagination.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041384723

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Joan of Arc by Winston Churchill Pdf

An extract from Winston Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples relating the life of the martyr whose divine inspiration helped Charles VII Become King of France.

Author : Estefania Wenger
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789386834331

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Joan of Arc by Estefania Wenger Pdf

Joan of Arc , considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, which was allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges. After Cauchon declared her guilty she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age. She has remained a popular figure in literature, cultural depictions of her have continued in films, theater, television, video games, music, and performances to this day. This book gives a brief account of her life.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191651939

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Joan of Arc by Marina Warner Pdf

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine every movement has wanted as their figurehead. In France, anti-semitic, xenophobic, extreme right parties have claimed her since the Action Francaise in the 19th century. By contrast, Socialists, feminists, and liberal Catholics rallied to her as the champion of the dispossessed and the wrongly accused. Joan of Arc has also played a crucial role in changing visions of female heroism. She has proved an inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, playwrights, film-makers, performers, and composers. In a single, brief life, several of the essential mythopoiec characteristics that throughout history have defined the charismatic leader and saint are powerfully and intensely condensed. Even while Joan of Arc was still alive, but far more so after her death, the heroic part of her story sparked narratives of all kinds, in pictures, ballads, plays, and also satires. This was only heightened in 1841-9 by the publication of the Inquisition trial which had examined Joan for witchcraft and heresy. The transcript of the interrogations gives us the voice of this young woman across the centuries with almost unbearable immediacy; her spirit leaps from the page, uncompromising in its frankness, good sense, courage, and often breathtaking in its simple effectiveness. Joan of Arc into one of the most fully and vividly present personalities in history, about whom a great more is known, in her own words and at first hand, than is, for example, about Shakespeare. However, this has not stopped the flow of fictions and fantasies about her. Marina Warner analyses the symbolism of the Maid in her own time and in her rich afterlife in popular culture. The cultural expressions are part of an ongoing historical struggle to own the symbol - you could say, the brand. In a new preface to her study, Marina Warner takes stock of the continuing contention, in politics and culture, for this powerful symbol of virtue. Joan of Arc's multiple resurrections and transformations show how vigorous the need for figures like her remains, and how crucial it is to meet that need with thoughtfulness. She argues that abandoning the search to identify heroes and define them, out of a kind of high-minded distaste for propaganda, lets dangerous political factions manipulate them to their own ends. When Marine Le Pen calls on Joan of Arc's name, she needs to be confronted about her bad faith and her abuse of history.

Author : Moya Longstaffe
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445673059

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Joan of Arc and 'The Great Pity of the Land of France' by Moya Longstaffe Pdf

The extraordinary story of the Maid placed in the France of her time, presenting her and her contemporaries in all their humanity to the general reader. Who was this notorious and enigmatic country girl, on trial for her life?

Author : KERBY ENDEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600089584

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JOAN OF ARC by KERBY ENDEN Pdf

Author : Tabatha Yeatts
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402765428

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Joan of Arc by Tabatha Yeatts Pdf

Joan of Arc was born a French peasant who knew nothing of warfare. Yet she heard heavenly voices telling her that she alone could save her country in its war with England and restore Charles VII as the king of France. Deeply religious and remarkably courageous, Joan was devoted to her saints, her God, her king, and her people. And so she journeyed across the embattled countryside to fight for the future of France, risking capture and even death. She achieved great military success, both as a leader and as a warrior. Joan was ultimately captured, sold to the enemy, found guilty of heresy, and put to death in 1431. But twenty-five years later, the church overturned the verdict and finally in 1920 pronounced her Saint Joan of Arc. Today she is considered a national hero by French citizens and an inspiration to people of all nationalities and faiths. Book jacket.

Author : Regine Pernoud,Marie-Veronique Clin
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312227302

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Joan of Arc: Her Story by Regine Pernoud,Marie-Veronique Clin Pdf

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.

Author : Ali Alizadeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525266667

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The Last Days of Jeanne D'Arc by Ali Alizadeh Pdf

"Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic battles. She hears ghostly voices and has unspeakable desires. The English want to burn her. Her king has abandoned her. Her heart has been broken. Her heart cannot be burnt. This is her story, and the story of her beloved. Ali Alizadeh's novel The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc is a provocative new portrait of the life of one of history's most fascinating figures. Countless books have been written about the young Frenchwoman who claimed to hear the voices of saints, led the armies of France in the war against England in the Middle Ages, and was captured and burnt for heresy by her enemies. Based on a rigorous study of the historical material, The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc provides the first serious dramatisation of Jeanne's sexuality. Alizadeh uses an innovative storytelling technique that weaves together multiple narrative perspectives to tell the story of a courageous young woman who, driven by a passion for justice and forbidden desire, changes the course of Western history."

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520224647

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Joan of Arc by Marina Warner Pdf

Examines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint.

Author : Deborah A. Fraioli
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0851158803

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Joan of Arc by Deborah A. Fraioli Pdf

[Does] an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates... A thorough and timely book. MYSTICS QUARTERLY Joan of Arc arrived at the French court claiming to be sent by God to come to the aid of the dauphin Charles. Most studies of Joan focus on her political expediency, but the starting point of this book is her assertion that she was sent by God: it is the first real exploration of the application of the Catholic doctrine of discretio spirituum [the discernment of spirits] to her case, and of her reception as a visionary woman. The author examines contemporary theological documents which show genuine debate about Joan's mission and whether she was diabolically or divinely inspired, also taking into account the two major literary works dealing with her, Christine de Pizan's Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc and Martin Le Franc's Le champion des dames, as well as Joan's own letter to the English. Appendices offer translations of pertinent Latin and French texts. Professor DEBORAH FRAIOLI teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Simmons College, Boston.

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Cattle
ISBN : UCAL:B3243502

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Herd Register by American Jersey Cattle Club Pdf