Helen of Troy - Margaret George

From the bestselling author of Autobiography of Henry VIII, Memoirs of Cleopatra, and Mary, Called Magdalene, comes a lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face launched a thousand ships, the mythic woman who was Helen of Troy. \nAcclaimed author Margaret George tells the story of the legendary Greek woman whose face launched a thousand ships in this New York Times bestseller. \nThe Trojan War, fought nearly twelve hundred years before the birth of Christ, and recounted in Homer's Iliad, continues to haunt us because of its origins: one woman's beauty, a visiting prince's passion, and a love that ended in tragedy. \n \nLaden with doom, yet surprising in its moments of innocence and beauty, Helen of Troy is an exquisite page-turner with a cast of irresistible, legendary characters--Odysseus, Hector, Achilles, Menelaus, Priam, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, as well as Helen and Paris themselves. With a wealth of material that reproduces the Age of Bronze in all its glory, it brings to life a war that we have all learned about but never before experienced.\n