Mary Renault: A Biography, Paperback - David Sweetman

Reducere. The author of The Charioteer and The King Must Die, Renault studied at Oxford but eventually abandoned the academic world and England for South Afr...

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Admired by Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters, Mary Renault's powers of historical fiction are given over to the subject of Alexander the Great in this...

First published in 1953, The Charioteer is a tender, intelligent coming-of-age novel and a bold, unapologetic portrayal of homosexuality that stand...

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life.

The King Must Die retells the story of Theseus, bringing mythology vividly to life.

Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault masterfully brings the ancient world to life in this page...

A sparkling, unconventional social comedy set in bohemian 1930s London.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Mary RenaultNumber of pages: 3...

The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.

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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra from its ancient origins to today, bringing to life the improbable cast...

In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ...

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Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

Orlando: A Biography is an influential novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the ...

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"Neither coy nor restrained, the former Mrs. David Bowie describes in no uncertain terms the torrid 'open marriage' she shared with the singer know...

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Reducere. The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's...

Reducere. The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD ...

This is the first comprehensive biography in half a century of John Locke -“a man of versatile mind, fitted for whatever you shall undertake”, as o...

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Reducere. At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both at home and abroad for The Sailor Who Fell from...

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The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure.

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Janet Morgan's definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the author.

As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. She was admired as the muse a...