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The King Must Die :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics
The King Must Die :A Virago Modern Classic - Virago Modern Classics
paperback
Published:
5 March, 2015
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781844089635 |
| ISBN10 | 1844089630 |
| Number Of Pages | 416 |
| Item Weight | 330 g |
| Product Dimensions | 127 x 197 x 27 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format | paperback |
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There's much to say about her interweaving of myth and history and, just as interestingly, there's much to wonder at in the way she fills in the large dark spaces where we know next to nothing about the times she describes ... an important and wonderful writer ... she set a course into serious-minded, psychologically intense historical fiction that today seems more important than ever -- Sam Jordison Guardian Renault did for Ancient Greece what Hilary Mantel did for the Tudors -- Quentin Letts The Week
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Author's Bio
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 was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.