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Helena

Helena

Literary Fiction

Evelyn Waugh

Authors: Evelyn Waugh
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftan who is suddenly betrothed to the warrior who becomes the Roman emperor Constantius. She spends her life seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world. This she eventually finds in Christianity and literally in the Cross of Christ.