Farewell, my only one /
"In the early twelfth century, William reaches Paris full of hope and without a penny. There, on the same day, he meets the two people who will dominate his life: Heloise, a young woman whom he saves from an overwhelming crowd and immediately falls in love with; and Abelard, the world-renowned...
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| Sprog: | English French |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
2004.
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| Summary: | "In the early twelfth century, William reaches Paris full of hope and without a penny. There, on the same day, he meets the two people who will dominate his life: Heloise, a young woman whom he saves from an overwhelming crowd and immediately falls in love with; and Abelard, the world-renowned master of philosophy, who was compared to Aristotle. Through the eyes of William, we follow every turn in the greatest love story of the time, one that so struck the imagination of contemporaries and subsequent generations alike that is has been called "the invention of love." We witness the scandal of the famous theologian falling for his educated and charming student; their flight and secret marriage; the barbaric revenge of the girl's uncle; their years of separation; the writing of the famous letters; and finally the demise of a broken Abelard, whose books have been burned, a man who finds his ultimate solace in the thought of the woman who has never ceased to love him."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 328 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 328) |
| ISBN: | 0618152865 |