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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: Fiction | 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
Kind are Her Answers: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying patient, a ...Show more
Mask of Apollo by Renault Mary
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us ...Show more
Praise Singer by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood ...Show more
Return to Night: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Losing out on a promotion to her ex lover, Hilary Mansell, a talented doctor, moves to a rural hospital. She is bored and unchallenged, but the routine and long hours dull her disappointment. When Julian Fleming is admitted with a serious head injury, Hilary's skill and quick thinking save his life, and ...Show more
The Bull From the Sea by RENAULT MARY
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Category: Fiction
A richly textured historical novel recreates the Greek myth concerning Theseus's love for Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons, and his reign as king of Athens. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
The Bull from the Sea: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: Theseus Historic Novels | Reading Level: good
Having freed the city of Athens from the onerous tribute demanded by the ruler of Knossos - the sacrifice of noble youths and maidens to the appetite of the Labyrinth's monster - Theseus has returned home to find his father dead and himself the new king. But his adventures have only just begun: he still ...Show more
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | 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 / the Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
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Category: Classics
In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and weaves a thrillingly plausible account of the Labyrinth and the infamous Minotaur.The King Must Die follows the young Theseus as he discovers that his true father is the King of Athens, and ...Show more
The King Must Die (Theseus #1) by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: Theseus Historic Novels | Reading Level: good
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
The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
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Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their relationship develops, Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing the impact of this supreme philosopher ...Show more
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