Joan of Arc, by Robert Southey (epic poetry)

[Lushnam]

I thought the idea of an epic poem of Joan of Arc was really cool—so I thought I would outright suggest this one, since it's not there.

It's actually not on Gutenberg, but there is a scanned copy of the 1812 edition (as well as the 1798 edition) on Google Books. Here's the 1812 link:
http://books.google.com/books?id=GJoDAAAAQAAJ

Any takers?

EDIT:
I guess each edition has different books in it—so the 1798 edition starts with the first and ends with the fourth, and the 1812 starts with the seventh and ends with the tenth. I'm not sure how many books there are. So, I guess we might want to get a copy of the whole thing first, unless you don't mind reading just those books of it. Let me know if you find the others.

[Lushnam]

[You can skip this post to the ones below, as there are online copies we've found, unless a hard copy is preferable.]

I found a public domain copy of the work for sale (that's usually hard to do for such as this). It's $45—published in 1853.

Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00085CGMM/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=

I don't know if it includes all the books, but we could find out by asking the seller or what-have-you.

So, if anyone wants to buy it, and make the information available to both Gutenberg and Librivox, that would be great. I would buy it myself, but I'm low on cash, and wouldn't be able to get to it for a while to come.

It'd be great to have a librivox member get this, while it's still for sale—instead of just some random collector who will horde it for all eternity.

[kmerline]

For an online source, you might try Internet Archive in the e-books section.

Nearly everything Google Books has for "full view" is patched through to them, and they may have other versions as well. It's usually possible to figure out for sure that you have the whole book. The image scans allow you to read the entire title page.

[Lushnam]

For an online source, you might try Internet Archive in the e-books section. :)

Thanks for the note! That helps a ton (and it's useful for other quests of mine, too).

Here's a link containing a public domain (1858) copy of all ten books (as well as his poems—though the download is on Google Books, it was easier to find it through archive.org for some reason):
http://books.google.com/books?id=Hk4hAAAAMAAJ

Here's the archive.org link:
http://www.archive.org/details/minorpoemsballa00soutgoog

Here's an 1866 edition (I don't know that this is much different from the 1858 one, though):
http://www.archive.org/details/joanofarcballads00soutrich

Now, although that is the entire book, it should be noted that there are probably later releases with significant changes that are likely also public domain. I'll probably search those out and find more information to post here.

[Lushnam]

Here's a link to the edition that looks like the final one from the author:
http://www.archive.org/details/joanofarc00soutuoft

Is there enough evidence that this edition is public domain to use it for Librivox? It doesn't have a publication date listed, but there's no copyright notice either—and I'm sure it's old enough to where that would mean it's public domain.

It would be nice to get that preface by the author in and all as it is lacking in the other editions. Some of the words are different in this than the previous editions.

[elsieselwyn]

If anybody’s here still want to read this here is the whole book with a preface and introduction that obviously has a publication date in the public domain: https://archive.org/details/JoanOfArc1841