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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: Gay & Bi Male 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
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, ...Show more
Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
The politics of the Greek cities of the fourth-century B.C. told by an actor who travels with a golden mask of Apollo, relic of the great age of classical theater in Greece.
Mask of Apollo by Renault Mary
$21.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male 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
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
Praise Singer by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male 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
The Bull from the Sea: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male 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: Gay & Bi Male 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 Friendly Young Ladies: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
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Category: Lesbian & Bi Fiction | Series: VMC
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonor ...Show more
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
An adaptation of the legend of Theseus who masters the art of bull leaping and slays the Minotaur in the process of fulfilling his destiny.
The King Must Die / the Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
$36.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
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: Gay & Bi Male 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