Helen Waddell

Peter Abelard (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of the historical novel Peter Abelard by Helen Waddell introduced by Kate Mosse, the bestselling author of The Burning Chambers and Labyrinth.

The story of Heloise and Abelard is one of the most famous love stories of all time. He was a famous philosopher in 12th Century Paris and she was a gifted scholar. He takes on the role of her tutor and the two fall passionately in love. Heloise's Uncle arranges for them to be married in secret but his motives are far from kind. He arranges a brutal attack on Abelard which leaves him a broken man. Both Heloise and Peter take holy orders but although separated physically their love for each other lasts for the rest of their lives.

First published in 1933 and a huge bestseller in its time, Helen Waddell's novel tells their story with an intoxicating mix of drama and sensitivity and her own extensive scholarly research allows her to portray 12th France with astonishing vigour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529003086
• Artikelnr.: 53637236

Autorenporträt

Helen Waddell was born in Japan in 1889, the youngest of ten children. The family returned to Ireland where she graduated brilliantly from Queen's University Belfast. Thwarted from pursuing a promising academic career by duty to her ailing stepmother, at thirty-one she went to Oxford University to undertake a PhD, moving to Paris to continue her research into the humanism of the Latin Middle Ages, published in 1927 as The Wandering Scholars. While working for a London publishing company she wrote Peter Abelard which was one of the biggest selling books of the 1930s and Waddell was propelled into literary stardom. She died in London in 1965.