Bibliograph

Love without end, a story of Heloise and Abelard, Melvyn Bragg

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Love without end, a story of Heloise and Abelard, Melvyn Bragg

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Love without end

Responsibility statement

Melvyn Bragg

Sub title

a story of Heloise and Abelard

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

Target audience

adult

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