The Last of the Wine - Couverture souple

Renault, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340404876 ISBN 13 : 9780340404874

Editeur : Sceptre, 1998

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Renault wrote more than a dozen novels; has had her work adapted for radio, stage, and screeen; and has been the subject of documentaries and biographies. She is as widely known for her forthright treatment of gay relationships as well as her historical restructions of ancient Greece. She was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained as a nurse, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. After World War II, she and Mullard settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her historical novels, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine, and The Persian Boy. The biography The Nature of Alexander is one of her only nonfiction books. She died in Cape Town in 1983.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, grows up just as the Peloponnesian War is drawing to a close. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war, and more and more Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Sokrates. Among the great thinker's followers Alexias meets Lysis, and the two youths become inseparable, wrestling together in the palaestra, journeying to the Olympic Games and fighting in the wars against Sparta. On the great historical canvas of famine, siege, and civil conflict, their relationship captures vividly the intricacies of classical Greek culture. (2003-07-23)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sceptre
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0340404876
• ISBN 13: 9780340404874
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 382