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Original Title:	Helen of Troy
ISBN:	0670037788 (ISBN13: 9780670037780)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Helen of Troy, Menelaus, Paris, Hector of Troy, Achilles (Greek hero), Agamemnon
Setting:	Greece

Helen of Troy

Margaret George

Hardcover | Pages: 611 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 9753 Users | 867 Reviews

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Title	:	Helen of Troy
Author	:	Margaret George
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 611 pages
Published	:	August 3rd 2006 by Viking Adult (first published July 26th 2006)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy. Mythology. Romance

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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.

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I was given this book as a gift and it was some time before I started to read it. The thought of reading over 600 pages initially put me off. What a page turner this turned out to be and soon found myself at the end of a great read.

Homer gaves us the story of the end of the Trojan War and the great tale of what happened to the Odyssey when it lost its way. There are numerous tales of the greatest warriors that fought the war and endless stories of the watching gods. Margaret George tells a different story. It is the story of Helen and how she went from being Helen, Queen of Sparta to Helen of Troy. And the story is told through her eyes. From her childhood when she strained against her restraints and resented the fact that

While perhaps not as engrossing as Henry VIII or Cleopatra, I thought Margaret George's Helen of Troy was, indeed, magical.

This was an amazing book. It was so well written you can follow the story of Greek names, cities, statues, ritals, and Greek culture most people are not familiar with. The belief Greek people had in the immortal God's on high Olympus that of Zeus, Aphrodite, Athena, Persephone, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Hera, and others is almost magical. Helen, the Queen of Sparta, left her home for love and desire to be with someone seven years younger than she all because of Arphodite the goddess of love. This

As an avid reader, it's not very often that you come across a book that immediately finds a spot on the top shelf of your bookcase. Well, Helen of Troy has earned that right, without a doubt. This book is sheer perfection in so many ways a simple review cannot express. The author did a beautiful job of telling the story of Helen of Sparta, later Helen of Troy from a perspective which seamlessly submerges you into the Trojan War. She weaved in all the right characters, events and emotions and

I hoped that this would be an intriguing story that adds new depth to the characters and machinations of the Trojan War; that it would take what we already knew and make it interesting, give it depth and conflict and emotion so that it was still interesting. But I didn't feel that Margaret George did that at all. Since Helen of Troy is written from the first person point of view of Helen, she needed to be a compelling woman of intelligence and strength and force of will caught in the tides of

I loved the story. So different than the Helen of Troy I knew. I cried so many times. I liked how the characters were portrayed And she grew old just like the rest of us. I would read this book again