‘Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured,’ by Kathryn Harrison
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Book review by Marie Arana, full review at The Washington Post. Told and retold since time immemorial — by fabulists from Shakespeare to Bertolt Brecht — the story of Joan of Arc shows no sign of loosening its grip on our imaginations. “She was honorable in an age which had forgotten what honor was,” Mark Twain rhapsodized,…
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