Instruct: Classify a given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Not a bodice ripper!

This is a beautifully detailed, beautifully written historical novel. A factually accurate, sensual and moving version of the story of the 12th century French lovers Abelard and Heloise. The charismatic Abelard, the pre-emminent philosopher of Paris, is a master of dialectics and reason, celebrated throughout Paris; his pupil, Heloise, some 20 years younger is renowned for 'surpassing all women and most men' in her learning. Abelard is a rebel in the realms of theology and philosophy - but Heloise shows herself to be an even greater rebel, surpassing him in the realm of human love. The film version of the novel (1988)- out of print and difficult to acquire - has some historical inaccuracies and is rather truncated, but is a cut above the run-of-the-mill Romance channel classics. Strives to give equal weight to the paradoxical 'fields' of love and reason. It would be impossible to imagine a richer plot - and yet, though the treatment here is fiction, the events are real.