The Living Wood by Louis de Wohl (1947), about Helena's conversion to Christianity and her search for the True Cross Christian message.
Other novels about Helena and Constantine: Helena appears on the list of The 50 Best Historical Novels for a Survey of Ancient Roman History Loyola Classics edition) More about Helena at Powell's Books or The Empire into a beacon of the Empire’s new faith. But Helena also provides aĪt the time when a building program transformed it from an antique backwater of IĬan think of no other author who could create such splendid dark comedy from theīathhouse comeuppance of a conniving, murderous empress. The travails of an assortment of people who are, on the whole, quite awful. The author’s gift for subtle malice will find this a delightful way to follow Waugh’s detached comic tone is perfect for a story where most bigĮvents take place offstage and arrive in the form of gossip. Where she follows from afar the machinations of the men and women who striveįor power. She takes the ups and downs of her matrimonialĬareer in stride, mostly enjoying her long interludes in quiet backwaters, Of those generations of pragmatic, horse-loving women who would anchor theĭuring a much later empire. Waugh gives her a British background and imagines her as the forebear We see the story mostly from the viewpoint of Helena Rooting the Empire’s new religion in something tangible.
Son to endorse Christianity, and of her own practical contribution toward He provides an entertaining view of the game of musical thrones that led Helena’s sometimes-wayward Waugh’s gift for wicked humor and sly characterization from first page to last. She and centuries of believers called the True Cross. Revisited takes its journey from youthful sin to adult repentance a tad tooįable about the long road that brought Constantine’s mother to discover what Point for his youthful comedic skills and his later efforts to express his His novel about Emperor Constantine's mother is a happy meeting Evelyn Waugh, the author of Helena, was a very funny satirist who in midlife converted toĬatholicism.
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