The King Must Die / The Bull from the Sea
$67.54
- Hardcover
120 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
A hardcover omnibus edition of the two classic novels in which Mary Renault brilliantly recreates the legendary hero Theseus and his defeat of the Minotaur.
In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and weaves a thrillingly plausible account of the Labyrinth and the infamous Minotaur.
The King Must Die follows the young Theseus as he discovers that his true father is the King of Athens, and volunteer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594095 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594091 |
| Author: | Mary Renault, Daniel Mendelsohn |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 661g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 134mm x 34mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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About The Author
Mary Renault
Mary Renault was educated at Clifton High School, Bristol and St Hugh’s College, Oxford. Having completed nursing training in 1937, she then wrote her first novel Promise of Love. Her next three novels were written during off-time duty whilst serving in the war. In 1948 she went to live in South Africa but travelled widely. It was her trip to Greece and her visits to Corinth, Samos, Crete, Delos, Aegina and other islands, as well as to Athens, Sounion and Marathon, that resulted in her brilliant historical reconstructions of Ancient Greece. Mary Renault died in 1983.
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