Helena

Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" set in the age of Emperor Constantine (Chicago Tribune).

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she spends her adulthood seeking truth in the religions, mythologies, and philosophies of the declining ancient world, and becomes initiated into Christianit...