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Publisher: Back Bay Books

Author: Evelyn Waugh

ISBN: 9780316216517

Year: 2012

Format: Paperback

Classics, Historical fiction

Helena by
Evelyn Waugh

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$ 350.00 mxn

Helena by

Evelyn Waugh

Reviews

"[ Helena] may be read on two levels of appreciation. As bright entertainment, or as deceptively profound commentary. On both levels it's a superlatively well done book"

Chicago Tribune

Summary

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world, and becomes initiated into Christianity just as it is recognized as the religion of the Roman Empire.

Helena--a novel that Evelyn Waugh considered to be his favorite, and most ambitious, work--deftly traverses the forces of corruption, treachery, enlightenment, and political intrigue of Imperial Rome as it brings to life an inspiring heroine.

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