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Helena

Helena

Waugh, Evelyn

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General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0316216518
ISBN13: 9780316216517
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Dec 11 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The life of Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, tracing her unlikely rise from humble origins to a determined spiritual quest culminating in the search for the True Cross.

a superlatively well done book --Chicago Tribune

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.

In this historical fiction novel that Evelyn Waugh considered to be his favorite and most ambitious work, Helena deftly traverses the forces of corruption, treachery, enlightenment, and political intrigue of Imperial Rome as it brings to life an inspiring heroine.Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and a superlatively well done book (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine.

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