Evelyn Waugh's only historical novel is a convincing, although necessarily reconstructed picture of court life in the third and fourth century of the Roman Empire. It gives a chronologigal account of the life of Helena, mother of Constantine, as she moves at the whim of powerful men from Colchester through Gaul and Dalmatia to settle in Treves Reviews: · British novelist Evelyn Waugh, a high-profile Catholic convert in , called his historical novel Helena, about St. Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, “far the best book I have ever written or ever will write.”In the same way, the author Mark Twain called his Joan of Arc the favorite of the books he bltadwin.ru of their readers disagree with both of them. · The Oxford University Press and Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project have announced a virtual book launch for the publication of bltadwin.ru book (volume 11 of the Complete Works) will be published next month in the UK, with North American publication to follow in January
Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor bltadwin.ru 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. Helena, by Evelyn Waugh I stumbled on this little treasure at the Beaumaris branch of the Bayside Library service, and picked it up because it was a title I didn't know. I thought I'd read everything there was to read of Waugh when I was in my twenties: one of my brothers-in-law loved Waugh's subversive humour and over a blissful period. On both levels it's a superlatively well done book." —Chicago Tribune Evelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel.
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. Helena Quotes by Evelyn Waugh. 7 quotes from Helena: ‘He delighted in writing, in the joinery and embellishment of his sentences, in the consciousness of high rare virtue when every wo. By. John Loranger. Evelyn Waugh is probably best known for his novel, Brideshead Revisited —which I have never read. In fact I have read only one of his books. But that one, Helena, is very good despite a number of peculiarities and shortcomings. Published in , it concerns the titular empress and saint, who lived during the s and s A.D. and was the mother of Constantine the Great.
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