Bibliography

Jeanne D'Arc, Maid of Orleans Deliverer of France

Edited by - T. Douglas Murray

Published by - William Heinemann, London - 1903.

(This is a good book because it contains an English translation of both of Joan's trials. The only draw back is that the language is a little archaic.)

 

Joan of Arc

Author - Grace James

Published by - Methuen & Co. Ltd., London - 1910

(This is a very good book.)

 

The Maid of France, Being The Story of The Life and Death of Jeanne D'Arc

Author - Andrew Lang

Published by - Longmans, Green and Co., New York - 1913

(This is a good book.)

 

St. Joan of Arc, The Life-Story of the Maid of Orleans

Author - Rev. Denis Lynch, S. J.

Published by - Benziger Brothers, New York - 1919

(This is a good book.)

 

Joan of Arc, Maid of France

2 Volume set

Author - Albert Bigelow Paine

Published by - The Macmillan Company, New York - 1925

(This two-volume set is excellent.)


My Jeanne D'Arc, Her Wonderful Story in the Light of Recent Researches

Author - Michael Monahan

Published by - The Century Co., New York, London - 1928

(This is a good book.)

 

The Sword of God: Jeanne d'Arc

Author - Guy Endore

Published by - Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, New York - 1931

(This is an excellent book.)

 

The Trial of Jeanne D'Arc

Translated by - W. P. Barrett

Published by - Gotham House, Inc. - 1932

(This is an excellent book.)

 

Saint Joan of Arc

Author - V. Sackville-West

Published by - The Literary Guild, New York - 1936

(The author writes under the burden of English prejudice against Joan. I do NOT recommend this book at all.)

 

Joan of Arc: An Anthology of History and Literature

Edited by - Edward Wagenknecht

Published by - Creative Age Press, New York - 1948

(This is an excellent book.)

 

Joan of Arc

Author - Lucien Fabre

Published by - McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York, London - 1954

(This is a very good book.)

 

The Retrial of Joan of Arc

Author - Regine Pernoud

Published by - Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York - 1955

(This is an excellent book.)

 

The Maid of Orleans

Author - Sven Stolpe

Published by - Pantheon Books Inc. New York - 1956

(This is a good book.)

 

The First Biography of Joan of Arc

Translated and Annotated by Daniel Rankin and Claire Quintal

Published by - University of Pittsburgh Press - 1964

(This is a very good book.)

 

Joan of Arc: Fact, Legend, and Literature

Authors - Wilfred T. Jewkes & Jerome B. Landfield

Published by - Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. New York - 1964

(This is a good book.)

 

Jeanne d'Arc

Author - W. S. Scott

Published by - Harrap, London - 1974

(This is a very good book.)

 

Joan of Arc

Author - Edward Lucie-Smith

Published by - W. W. Norton Company Inc., New York - 1977

(The author writes under the burden of English prejudice against Joan. I do NOT recommend this book at all.)

 

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Author - Marina Warner

Published by - Alfred A. Knope, New York - 1981

(This author is full of her own self-importance and intellectual prowess. If I could have understood the book, I might have liked it.)

 

Joan of Arc: The Legend and The Reality

Author - Frances Gies

Published by - Harper & Row, Publishers, New York - 1981

(This is a good book.)

 

The Spiritual Way of St. Jeanne d'Arc

Author - George H. Tavard

Published by - The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota - 1998

(This is a good book but the author, a priest, is long winded and could have made his point in half the pages.)

 

Joan of Arc: Her Story

Author - Regine Pernoud & Marie Veronique Clin

Translated and Revised by - Jeremy duQuesnay Adams

Published by St. Martin's Press, New York - 1998

(This is a good book.)

 

Joan of Arc: A Spiritual Biography

Author - Siobhan Nash - Marshall

Published by -The Crossroad Publishing Company, New York - 1999

(This is a very good book.)

 

Joan of Arc: A Military Leader

Author - Kelly DeVries

Published by Sutton Publishing Limited, Gloucestershire - 1999

(This is a very interesting book.)

 

Beyond The Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc

Author - Polly Schoyer Brooks

Published by - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - 1999

(In several places the author is inaccurate in her history and her interpretation of the facts. Otherwise it's an ok book.)

 

Saint Joan of Arc

Author - John Beevers

Published by Tan books. This book is currently in print

(This is an excellent short biography.)

 

Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

Author - Regine Pernoud

Published by Scarbough House, Lanham, Maryland - currently in print.

(If you have time to read but one book on the subject of Joan of Arc, then this is a MUST! This book is excellent.)

 


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