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Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
Mary Renault
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Description for Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
Paperback. In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 fuelled 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 ... Read more
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 fuelled 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844089574
SKU
V9781844089574
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About Mary Renault
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Fire from Heaven: A Novel of Alexander the Great: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC)
Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty ... a literary conjuring trick ... so convincing and passionately conjured The Times Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient ... Read more