The Last of the Wine

Author(s): Mary Renault

Gay & Bi Male Fiction



In The Last of the Wine, two young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the palaestra, journey to the Olympic games, fight in the wars against Sparta, and study under Socrates. As their relationship develops, Renault expertly conveys Greek culture, showing the impact of this supreme philosopher whose influence spans epochs.
The Last of the Wine is the first of the ‘Ancient Greece’ novels written by Mary Renault and it remains one of her most popular with fans.

 



 


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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.

General Fields

  • : 9781844089611
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Sphere
  • : 0.268
  • : July 1956
  • : 19.80 cmmm X 13.20 cmmm X 2.90 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 416
  • : 823.912
  • : en
  • : 1510
  • : Paperback
  • : Mary Renault