The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)
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The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)
The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

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Mary Renault (Author) Charlotte Mendelson (Contributor)  

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Athens and Sparta, the mighty city states of ancient Greece, locked together in a quarter century of conflict: the Peloponnesian War. Alexias the Athenian was born, passed through childhood and grew to manhood in those troubled years, that desperate and dangerous epoch when the golden age of Pericles was declining into uncertainty and fear for the future. Of good family, he and his friends are brought up and educated in the things of the intellect and in athletic and martial pursuits. They learn to hunt and to love, to wrestle and to question. And all the time his star of destiny is leading him towards the moment when he must stand alongside his greatest friend Lysis in the last great clash of arms between the cities.
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.
  • Contributor: Mary Renault
  • Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN13: 9781844089611
  • Number of Pages: 416
  • Packaged Dimensions: 128x198x26mm
  • Packaged Weight: 300
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
  • Release Date: 2015-08-06
  • Series: Virago Modern Classics
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.

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