by Evelyn Waugh · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788435005531
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«Helena. Emperatriz y santa» is the historical novel by Evelyn Waugh, published by Edhasa in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the decline of the Roman Empire, the novel recreates the life of Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, and her pilgrimage to Palestine in search of the True Cross. Waugh focuses on the empress's inner world and on the recognition of Christianity within an empire shaken by corruption and intrigue.
This novel belongs to Edhasa's Narrativas Históricas collection. The Spanish text comes from the original English.
For readers of historical fiction interested in Late Antiquity, the figure of Helena, and Evelyn Waugh's narrative.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
