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.
