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King Must Die
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King Must Die Mass market paperbound - 1981

by Mary Renault

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In this ambitious, ingenious narrative, celebrated historical novelist Mary Renault take legendary hero Theseus and spins his myth into a fast-paced and exciting story.

Renault starts with Theseus' early years, showing how the mystery of his father's identity and his small stature breed the insecurities that spur his youthful hijinx. As he moves on to Eleusis, Athens, and Crete, his playfulness and fondness for pranks matures into the courage to attempt singular heroic feats, the gallantry and leadership he was known for on the battlefield, and the bold-hearted ingenuity he shows in navigating the labyrinth and slaying the Minotaur. In what is perhaps the most inventive of all her novels of Ancient Greece, Renault casts Theseus in a surprisingly original pose; she teases the flawed human out of the bronze hero, and draws the plausible out of the fantastic.

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The Citadel of Troizen, where the Palace stands, was built by giants before anyone remembers.

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  • Title King Must Die
  • Author Mary Renault
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date October 1981
  • ISBN 9780553250480 / 0553250485
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Reading level 730
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

MARY RENAULT has written over a dozen novels, has had her work adapted for radio, stage, and screeen, and has been the subject of documentaries and biographies. She is as widely known for her forthright treatment of gay relationships as she is her historical restructions of ancient Greece. She was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained as a nurse, where she met her lifelong partner Julie Mullard. After during World War II, she and Mullard settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her historical novels, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. The biography The Nature of Alexander is one of her only non-fiction books. She died in Cape Town in 1983.

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