num_pages: 747
description: A lush, seductive novel of the legendary beauty whose face launched a thousand ships  Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquitys 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 Helens 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 worlds 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.
language: English
title: Helen of Troy
titlecomplete: Helen of Troy
characters: Helen of Troy, Agamemnon, Paris, Achilles, Menelaus, Hector of Troy
genres: Fiction, Historical, Greek Mythology, Greece, Romance, Ancient History, Classics, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 11248
places: Greece
publisher: Pan