Abelard and Heloise (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Almost one thousand years ago two people fell in love. Peter Abelard was the tutor of nineteen year old Heloise, and nearly twenty years her senior. It was a torrid affair, Heloise fell pregnant, and her guardian, Abbot Fulbert, plotted a hideous revenge. Abelard was seized and castrated. The lovers responded to this catastrophe by retreating into separate religious orders and seeking peace in the service of God. Years later a letter from Abelard to a friend falls by chance into Heloise's possession. She writes to him and there follows a series of letters that, even today, has the power to shock, excite and move the reader to tears. The poignant yearning to see one another once more is in every line of their correspondence. Heloise's timeless declarations of love could have been written only yesterday; her reckless, ruthless honesty, her apotheosis of love over morality - 'If the emperor Augustus saw fit to honor me with marriage . it would be dearer to me to be called not his empress, but your whore' - cannot fail but impress with its hopeless, defiant fidelity. Absolutely captivating.…

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine - New Book. A new and unread copy of this book. Cover price £4.99p. David Pearson (illustrator). Romantic Classic.

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Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Aside from library matter, this is a pristine copy that appears unread. 356 pages. 356 pp.

Condition: New. In.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine, sharp book in navy blue cloth with gilt titling. 69 pp. Book.

Condition: good. Book is considered to be in good or better condition. The actual cover image may not match the stock photo. Hard cover books may show signs of wear on the spine, cover or dust jacket. Paperback book may show signs of wear on spine or cover as well as having a slight bend, curve or creasing to it. Book should have minimal to no writing inside and no highlighting. Pages should be free of tears or creasing. Stickers should not be present on cover or elsewhere, and any CD or DVD expected with the book is included. Book is not a former library copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Decorative cloth covers in clean, tidy condition with a similar slipcase Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hawthorn, Raymond (illustrator).

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Condition: New. Print on Demand.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black buckram decoratively gilt, 4to., xix, 211, (1) pages. One of 750 numbered copies nicely designed and printed by Walter Lewis at the Cambridge University Press on Canson Rives handmade paper. Minor wear to cover extremities, else a better than very good copy of this attractive book, in archival mylar.…

ADDED Wyndham Theatre Programme of the play by Ronald Miller. 104 p., illustrated with a coloured title page and 8 full-page coloured plates by E A Cox, 22 x 26 cm. (original blue cloth, a very crisp and clean copy , illustrations bright and beautiful, but dust jacket partly dam . VERY GOOD) Marvellously printed by Meijer's Drukkerij, Wormerveer , Holland. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Now first translated from the Latin by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. This edition is printed in the Monotype reproductions of the Roman type designed by Francesco Griffo of Bologna for Aldus Manutius, and the cursive of Antonio Blado. One of 732 bound in black buckram from a total edition of 750. Spine slightly sunned, gilt lettering and rules on spine and front cover still bright. A beautiful copy in very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. An early American edition. frontis, [4], [1], 6-124p. Old (contemporary?) boards backed in leather (five thin hubs). 17 cm. Some indecipherable (by us) writing on front cover. Former owner's name ("Richard Downing Jr.") on title-page and recto of frontis leaf. Front pastedown no longer pasted down and rear pastedown now partially unpasted. Frontis detached. A worn copy which is textually intact in what seems likely to be the original binding. An American edition of this classic published just a year before the Revolutionary War began.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 316.

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