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Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat - Sarah Waters Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece to India. Fire From Heaven tells the story of ...Show more
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the men find solace in their covert friendship. Then Ralph Lanyon appears, a mentor from Laurie's schooldays. Through him, Laurie is ...Show more
The King Must Die (Theseus #1) by Mary Renault
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Category: Literature | Series: Theseus Historic Novels
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the child-devouring Minotaur of Crete. What the hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in The King Must Die. Drawing on scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a kin ...Show more
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