The Last of the Wine
by Renault, Mary
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- Hardcover
- first
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Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- Tulsa Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022149
- Title
- The Last of the Wine
- Author
- Renault, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Modern Library; (1956/1963)
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Library;
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