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Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
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 f ...Show more
Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat - Sarah Waters Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece to India. Fire From Heaven tells the story of ...Show more
Funeral Games: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. 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, ...Show more
LAST OF THE WINE by RENAULT MARY
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Bks.
Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, grows up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war, and more and more Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings o ...Show more
Persian Boy: A Novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: VMC
The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas is sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia, but finds freedom with Alexander the Great after the Macedon army conquers his homeland. Their relationship sustains Alex ...Show more
The King Must Die by Mary Renault
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
An adaptation of the legend of Theseus who masters the art of bull leaping and slays the Minotaur in the process of fulfilling his destiny.
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