- Eunuchs, Fiction, Generals, History
Historical novel set in the time of Alexander the Great. This novel tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas, a eunoch who was sold to King Darius of Persia, but found freedom with the great general, sustaining Alexander through mutiny, assassination attempts and two wives.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Mary Renault
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Sperling & Kupffer, Bantam, Editori associati
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- Italian, heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9782260003755
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“Lest anyone should suppose I am a son of nobody, sold off by some peasant father in a drought year, I may say our line is an old one, though it ends with me.”
**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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