Last of the Wine, Renault Mary

Автор: Renault Mary
Название: Charioteer
ISBN: 1844089509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844089505
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stands with Gore Vidal`s The City and the Pillar and James Baldwin`s Giovanni`s Room as a landmark work in gay literature.

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: The Praise Singer
ISBN: 0375714200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714207
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: 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 through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned Ionian singer. As they travel through 5th century B.C. Greece, Simonides learns not only how to play the kithara and compose poetry, but also how to navigate the shifting alliances surrounding his rich patrons. He is witness to the Persian invasion of Ionia, to the decadent reign of the Samian pirate king Polykrates, and to the fall of the Pisistratids in the Athenian court. Along the way, he encounters artists, statesmen, athletes, thinkers, and lovers, including the likes of Pythagoras and Aischylos. Using the singer's unique perspective, Renault combines her vibrant imagination and her formidable knowledge of history to establish a sweeping, resilient vision of a golden century.

Автор: Renault Mary
Название: The Last of the Wine
ISBN: 0375726810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726811
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Автор: Renault Mary
Название: Fire from Heaven
ISBN: 0375726829 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375726828
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Alexander's beauty, strength, and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fueled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition.

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: Funeral Games
ISBN: 0375714197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714191
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: "Renault's best historical novel yet.... Every detail has solid historical testimony to support it."-New York Review of Books

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, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: The Nature of Alexander
ISBN: 039473825X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780394738253
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander.

Автор: Renault, Mary
Название: The Friendly Young Ladies
ISBN: 0375714219 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714214
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Set in 1937, The Friendly Young Ladies is a romantic comedy of off-Bloomsbury bohemia. Sheltered, na ve, and just eighteen, Elsie leaves the stifling environment of her parents' home in Cornwall to seek out her sister, Leo, who had run away nine years earlier. She finds Leo sharing a houseboat, and a bed, with the beautiful, fair-haired Helen. While Elsie's arrival seems innocent enough, it is the first of a series of events that will turn Helen and Leo's contented life inside out. Soon a randy young doctor is chasing after all three women at once, a neighborly friendship begins to show an erotic tinge, and long-quiet ghosts from Leo's past begin to surface. Before long, no one is sure just who feels what for whom.

Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in the early 1940s, creating characters that are lighthearted, charming, and free-spirited partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness or Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. The result is a witty and stylish story that offers exceptional insight into the world of upcoming writers and artists of in 1930s London, chronicling their rejection of society's established sexual mores and their heroic pursuits of art and life.