- Kings and rulers, Generals, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction
Fire from Heaven is a 1969 historical novel by Mary Renault about the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great. It reportedly was a major inspiration for the Oliver Stone film Alexander.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Mary Renault
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 390
- Publisher
- Penguin, Longmans, Círculo de Lectores
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- German, French, Spanish, heb
- ISBN
- 9780349018607
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- Kings and rulers
- Generals
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Fiction
- History
- Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Alexander, the Great
- Alexander
- Macedonian Expansion (Greece : 359-323 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353599
- Fiction, general
- Philip II, King of Macedonia, 382-336 B.C. -- Fiction.
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
“The child was wakened by the knotting of the snake's coils about his waist.”
**Eileen Mary Challans** (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name *Mary Renault* (/ˈrɛnoʊlt/), was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece. Born in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. After graduating from St Hugh's with a Third Class in English, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. In 1948, she moved to South Africa with her partner Julie Mullard, where she spent the rest of her life. Living in South Africa allowed her to write about openly gay characters without fearing the censorship and homophobia of England. She devoted herself to
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