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  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780394738253
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $34.00
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The Nature of Alexander



The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander.

  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780394738253
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $34.00
Categories:

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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