| ISBN |
9781473690936 (paperback) |
| Name |
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939- author. |
| Title |
Love without end : a story of Heloise and Abelard / Melvyn Bragg. |
| Published |
London : Sceptre, 2018. |
| ©2018 |
| Description |
306 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary |
A classic love story, retold for our times. 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. |
| Subjects |
Héloïse, -- approximately 1095-1163 or 1164 -- Fiction |
| Abelard, Peter, -- 1079-1142 -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Paris (France) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Historical fiction |
| Romance fiction |
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