Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc

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Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc
Author: Elliott, David
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Time Period: Renaissance
Time Frame: 1431
Geographic Area: Europe
Country: France
Topics: Joan of Arc
Genre: Fiction, Biography
Reading Age: Young Adult
Format: Novel
Published: 2019


World History > Renaissance

Best-selling author David Elliott explores how Joan of Arc changed the course of history and remains a figure of fascination centuries after her extraordinary life and death. Joan of Arc gets the Hamilton treatment in this evocative novel.

Told through medieval poetic forms and in the voices of the people and objects in Joan of Arc’s life, (including her family and even the trees, clothes, cows, and candles of her childhood), Voices offers an unforgettable perspective on an extraordinary young woman. Along the way it explores timely issues such as gender, misogyny, and the peril of speaking truth to power. Before Joan of Arc became a saint, she was a girl inspired. It is that girl we come to know in Voices.

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