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    Helena

    Written by Evelyn Waugh

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    3.5/5

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781619693999
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    Helena
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    Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) estudió historia moderna en Oxford, donde llevó, según sus palabras, una vida de "pereza, disolución y derroche". Publicó en 1928 su primera novela, "Cuerpos viles", "¡Noticia bomba!" y "Merienda de negros", publicadas en esta colección, que le establecieron como el novelista cómico inglés más considerabe desde Dickens. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el influjo de su conversión al catolicismose hizo muy acusado; destacan entre las obras de dicho periodo "Retorno a Brideshead", la trilogía "La espada del honor" y también "Los seres queridos", en la que regresó a la veta satírica de sus primeras novelas.

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    • 4/5
      Witty and sometime humorous novella of St. Helen, mixed with a good deal of hagiography. The last few chapters were my favorite part: a "Golden Legend"-type pilgrimage to Jerusalem where Helena finds the True Cross and other relics. I also relished the literary or classical allusions such as Helena's father, King Coel of the Trinovantes calling for mead and music then dismissing his bowl, fiddlers three and pipe. Also Helena takes the young Constantine to "Government House" in her husband's posting and upon seeing the ocean, the little boy cries, "The sea; the sea!"Delightful!
    • 3/5
      "The enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery and madness of Imperial Rome", 1 July 2015This review is from: Helena (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)Short novel, in which the author takes what is known about 'Saint' Helena, and weaves the rest from imagination and legend. The novel opens when she is a girl, living in Colchester - the daughter of King Coel. A spirited, horse-mad young woman, she soon catches the eye of visiting emperor-to-be Constantius.Waugh writes imaginatively of a time we know little about; palace life, the violent world of the ruling classes, and various religions, as people seek enlightenment (although the dialogue often makes them sound more like Bright Young Things than characters from antiquity!) Helena discovers Christianity and makes it her mission to go to Jerusalem to find the true Cross, but this is in no sense a preachy book - the aged relic-hunter Helena is a breezy, determined character.Interesting (put me somewhat in mind of Robert Graves' 'I Claudius' trilogy) but with comic moments too.