The Praise Singer
A Virago Modern Classic
$22.56
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS
‘Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller’ CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
‘A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in character, incident and description’ WALL STREET JOURNAL
Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change.
At a local wedding on the isle of Keos, farmer’s son Simonides is mesmerised by …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349018621 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349018626 |
| Author: | Mary Renault, Charlotte Mendelson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Mary Renault
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.
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