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    Peter Abelard
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    Peter Abelard

    By Helen Waddell

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    Peter Abelard is Waddell's evocation of medieval Paris, and gripping account of this tragic love story, set amidst theological disputations.

    This historical novel was first published in 1933. It was critically well received then and became an instant bestseller.

    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781446547212
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    Peter Abelard
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    Helen Waddell

    Helen Waddell was born in Japan in 1889, the youngest of 10 children. The family moved to Ireland where she excelled at school and won a place at Queens’ University Belfast. But she gave up a promising academic career to care for her step mother. At 31 she went to Oxford University where she studied for a PHD and she then moved to Paris to continue her research into 12th and 13th Century French history. After a spell working for a publishing company in London, she published Peter Abelard which was one of the biggest selling books of the 1930s and Waddell was propelled into literary stardom. She died in London in 1965.

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      This is a well researched and erudite historical novel about the famous love story of the Medieval religious and intellectual figures Abelard and Heloise (despite the latter not getting her due billing in the title). While their story is fascinating and colourful, I found this novel somewhat disappointing in that I thought it sometimes got bogged down in its erudition at the expense of telling the story, and I found the narrative sometimes confusing as the order of events in their life story, with which I have some familiarity, was confused.