Helena


Author
Evelyn Waugh
Publisher
Penguin
Date Published
1963
This book may be best described as ‘a legend within a historical framework’, the story of Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. The enormous conflicting forces of the age, and the corruption, treachery and madness of Imperial Rome combine to give Evelyn Waugh the theme for one of his most memorable novels.

Cover illustration by Quentin Blake.