The Persian Boy [Alexander the Great 2]
by Renault, Mary [pseud. Eileen Mary Challans]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0582105420
- ISBN 13
- 9780582105423
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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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
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033237
- Title
- The Persian Boy [Alexander the Great 2]
- Author
- Renault, Mary [pseud. Eileen Mary Challans]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0582105420
- ISBN 13
- 9780582105423
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Mary Renault Persian Boy Historical Fiction Alexander the Great Gay Fiction
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