Peter Abelard

277 pp. Illustrations by Laszlo Matulay. The rapturous and tragic story of those immortal twelfth-century lovers, Heloise and Abelard, comes to vibrant life in this masterly retelling. The framework of this timeless romance is well known: at thirty-seven, Abelard, the famous Parisian scholar, was engaged to tutor the niece of the Canon of Notre Dame, seventeen-year-old Heloise--an association that enmeshed them in a passionate and fatal love. In Miss Waddell's hands the tale is infused with a living immediacy and a beauty that have made her version a modern classic.