Helen of Troy
by Margaret George
A lush,
seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face launched a thousand ships.
Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of
antiquity'?s bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia.
Now, Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist, has
turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy.
Margaret George breathes new life into the great
Homeric tale by having Helen narrate her own story. Through her eyes and in her
voice, we experience the young Helen?'s discovery of her divine origin and her
terrifying beauty. While hardly more than a girl, Helen married the remote
Spartan king Menelaus and bore him a daughter. By the age of twenty, the
world?'s most beautiful woman was resigned to a passionless marriage, until she
encountered the handsome Trojan prince Paris. And once the lovers flee to Troy,
war, murder and tragedy become inevitable.
In Helen of Troy, Margaret
George has captured a timeless legend in a mesmerizing tale of a woman whose
life was destined to create strife, and destroy civilizations.
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