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Article: Joan of Arc.
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Diane Stanley Joan of Arc; illus. by the author 40 pp. Morrow 9/98 ISBN 0-688-14329-6 16.00 g Library edition ISBN 0-688-14330-X 15.93 (Intermediate)
Although the subject, a popular and compelling one, is the same, as are the essential details of Joan's life--her vision-inspired dedication to the defense of France in the Hundred Years' War, her military genius, her betrayal and martyrdom--the effect of these two biographies is quite different. Josephine Poole's treatment, echoed in Angela Barrett's illustrations, is deeply spiritual, evanescent, a haunting impression of an era, a place, and an enigmatic human being, anchored in time by an adjoined chronology. In ...