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Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue By Bernard Shaw

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Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue By Bernard Shaw

by Shaw, Bernard

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London: Constable and Company, 1924. Sixth Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 7 1/8" X 5 1/4. Preface, 'Joan the Original and Presumptious.' , 'Joan and Socrates.', Contrast with Napoleon.', "Was Joan Innocent or Guilty?', 'Joan's Good Looks.', 'Joan's Social Position.', Joan's voices and Visions.', The Evolutionary Appetite.', 'The Modern Education which Joan escaped.', 'Failures of the Voices.', 'Joan a Galtonic Visualizer.', 'Joan's Manliness and Militarianism.', 'Was Joan Suicidal?', 'Joan Summed Up', 'Joan's Immaturity and Ignorance.', 'The Maid in Literature.', 'Protestant Misunderstandings of the Middle Ages.', 'Comparative Fairness of Joan's Trial.', 'Joan not tried as a Political Offender.', 'The Church uncompromised by its Amends.', 'Cruelty, Modern and Medieval.', 'Catholic anti-Clericalism.', 'Catholicism not yet Catholic Enough.', 'The Law of Change is the Law of God.', 'Credulity, Modern and Medieval.' etc., dated May, 1924 at Ayot St. Lawrence consists of 58 pp. Actual play is 114 pp. plus 2 pp. of Works by Shaw. Light green cloth cover has gilt text on spine only. Book is tight and clean, though very slightly cocked, fon ffep. Spine ends are rubbed. The only remaining piece of the DJ is the spine. Assorted newspaper clippings (3) laid in, as found. Bookseller's Inventory # 122646.

Synopsis

One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With SAINT JOAN (1923) Shaw reached the height of his fame and Joan is one of his finest creations; forceful, vital, and rebelling against the values that surround her. The play distils Shaw's views on the subjects of politics, religion and creative evolution.

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On Oct 16 2010, ElectricEel said:
As usual, Shaw works very hard at shocking the reader/viewer. He claims that the first trial, at which Joan was convicted, was more than fair, while the postumous trial, at which she was rehabilitated, was a kangaroo court. But maybe he's right. He also makes it clear that we're all willing to defend Joan now that she's been dead a few hundred years, but that if she were to reappear, we modern liberals would be the first to join the lynch mob.

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Bookseller
Lower Beverley Better Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
002646
Title
Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue By Bernard Shaw
Author
Shaw, Bernard
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Poor
Quantity Available
1
Edition
Sixth Impression
Publisher
Constable and Company
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1924
Size
7 1/8" X 5 1/4

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An online bookstore that just grew from a combination of a love of books, a desire to save them from landfill and an inability to bypass yard sales. A considerable percentage of my inventory is signed editions. I also take pride in my Canadiana catalogue.

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