Still, I must say Helen of Troy is not a book to dismiss just because I did not finish it. So I can’t tell you whether I didn’t finish this one because I didn’t enjoy it because I did or if I’m lazy with big books or I just seem to have this fear of their sheer size and I cannot fathom how to finish such a book. Unfortunately, Christmas, exams and lots of other things got in the way and I ran out of steam as well as renewal times for a library loaned book. So I was trying to break it with this book and I made it past 400 pages.

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.īefore we begin you may have noted I marked this book at DNF, but it stands at a crazy 700 pages and I have yet to finish such an epically long book. And once the lovers flee to Troy, war, murder, and tragedy become inevitable. By the age of twenty, the worlds most beautiful woman was resigned to a passionless marriage until she encountered the handsome Trojan prince Paris. While hardly more than a girl, Helen married the remote Spartan king Menelaus and bore him a daughter. Through her eyes and in her voice, we experience the young Helens discovery of her divine origin and her terrifying beauty. Margaret George breathes new life into the great Homeric tale by having Helen narrate her own story.

Now Margaret George, the highly acclaimed bestselling historical novelist, has turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy. Genre: Historical-fiction, Romance, Adult, DNFĭaughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquitys bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia.

Helen of Troy by Margaret George