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The Last of the Wine: a Virago Modern Classic Free FREE THE LAST OF THE WINE: A VIRAGO MODERN CLASSIC PDF Mary Renault | 416 pages | 06 Aug 2015 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9781844089611 | English | London, United Kingdom The Mask of Apollo: A Virago Modern Classic by Mary Renault - Books - Hachette Australia Home Groups Talk More Zeitgeist. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Series description. Related publisher series Penguin Classics. Dover Thrift Editions. Oxford World's Classics. Everyman's Library New Series. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading. Wordsworth Classics. Simon and Schuster Enriched Classics. Florin Books. Bantam Classics. Vintage Classics. Tor Classics. Penguin Popular Classics. Den svarte serie. Everyman's Library. Penguin The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic Library. 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RBA Narrativa Actual. The Best Mysteries of All Time. Penguin 60s. Virago Modern Classics | Awards | LibraryThing Combining the scholarship of a historian with the imagination of a novelist, Mary Renault brings the ancient Greek stage thrillingly to life. Set in fourth-century B. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he finds himself at the centre of a political crisis in which the philosopher Plato is also involved. Much of the action is set in Syracuse, where Plato's friend Dion is trying to persuade the young tyrant Dionysios the Younger to accept the rule of law. Through Nikeratos' eyes, the reader watches as the clash between the two unleashes all the pent-up violence in the city. Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity, she leads us through an alien landscape that moves and delights us. I never learned Latin or Greek; I wasn't raised on the classics, even in translation. So all my sense of the ancient world - its values, its style, the scent of its wars and passions - comes from Mary Renault. I turned to writing historical fiction because of something I learned from Renault: that it lets you shake off the mental shackles of your own era, all the categories and labels, and write freely about what really matters to you. Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics. Her characters live vividly both in their own time, and in ours. There's much to say about her interweaving of myth and history and, just as interestingly, The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic 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. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Lovewas published in There, The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteerand then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. The Light of Evening. The World According to Anna. The Abyssinian Proof. The Camel Bookmobile. The Unfinished Novel and Other stories. From the Place in the Valley Deep in the Forest. Self's Punishment. Your cart Close. Go Search. Download Image Download Image. 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In The Last of the Winetwo young Athenians, Alexias and Lysis, compete in the The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic, 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 The Last of the Wine: A Virago Modern Classic philosopher whose influence spans epochs. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 10th by Vintage first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Last of the Wineplease sign up. I've read that Mary Renault's publisher, Longmans, forced her to drop a huge portion of this novel as much as 40, wordseven after she had done her best to trim. Does anyone know if portions of the unpublished parts are available to read on line? 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Even classicists have found her depiction of the physical and spiritual ambiance of Ancient Greece so accurate as to be uncanny. It says a lot about a book that you feel a terrible sadness as you approach the final pages. It was a sense of loss not only of the characters but for the characters, for The Last of the Wine is a novel about loss, not only of youth and love, but of something much more profound, of honour. The story is narrated by Alexias and tells of his growth into manhood in Athens during the Peloponnesian Wars. Through the novel we learn about the ins and outs of the wars, but, more importantly, we learn about the lives and beliefs of the Athenians. Speaking through her narrator, Renault enters deep into their world view, taking for granted, as her narrator does, their spiritual beliefs, their lore and their laws. From the very first chapter we are thrust into a world totally foreign to our own, but portrayed entirely on its own terms. Alexias is born, small and puny, during a disastrous plague. His father, known as Myron the Beautiful, is on the verge of exposing him when he learns that his younger brother has died. Myron is distressed that he is not able to retrieve their bodies so as to bury them together. On returning home he sees that his wife has taken to the baby and does not have the heart to take it from her.
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