Love without end : a story of Heloise and Abelard
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-2018
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Paris in 1117. Heloise, a brilliant young scholar, is astonished when the famous, radical philosopher, Peter Abelard, consents to be her tutor. But what starts out as a meeting of minds turns into a passionate, dangerous love affair, which incurs terrible retribution. Nine centuries later, Arthur is in Paris to recreate the extraordinary story of Heloise and Abelard in a novel. To his surprise, his daughter visits and agrees to help, challenging his portraits of a couple who seem often inscrutable, sometimes breathtakingly modern. It soon emerges she is on her own mission to discover more about her parents' fractured relationship - and that Arthur's connection to his subject is more emotional than he cares to admit.
Main title:
Love without end : a story of Heloise and Abelard / Melvyn Bragg.
Author:
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-, author
Imprint:
London : Sceptre, 2018.
Collation:
306 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473690929 (hbk)9781473690950 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
823.9'14
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
231228