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The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault







The Persian Boy by Mary Renault The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

She was the eldest daughter of a physician Frank Challans and Mary Clementine Newsome Baxter Challans, known as Clementine. She has received numerous awards and honours, both during her lifetime and posthumously.īiography Youth and education Įileen Mary Challans was born on 4 September 1905 at Dacre Lodge, 49 Plashet Road, Forest Gate, Essex. Her work has had a generally positive reception by critics. Her books attracted a large gay following at the time of their publication, when few mainstream works depicted homosexuality in a positive light.

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

Renault's works are often rooted in themes related to love, sexuality and relationships. She is best known for her historical fiction today. She devoted herself to writing historical fiction in the 1950s, which were also her most successful books. Living in South Africa allowed her to write about openly gay characters without fearing the censorship and homophobia of England. In 1948, she moved to Durban, South Africa with her partner Julie Mullard, and later to Cape Town, where she spent the rest of her life. After graduating from St Hugh's with a Third Class in English, she worked as a nurse and began writing her first novels, which were contemporary romances. 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.Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault ( / ˈ r ɛ n oʊ l t/ ), was an English writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.īorn in Forest Gate in 1905, she attended St Hugh's College, Oxford, from 1924 until 1928. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. "Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary Renault including rare images of the author. The Persian Boy is the second volume of the Novels of Alexander the Great trilogy, which also includes Fire from Heaven and Funeral Games. The result is a riveting account of a great conqueror's years of triumph and, ultimately, heartbreak. This passion comes at a time when much is at stake-Alexander has two wives, conflicts are ablaze, and plots on the Macedon king's life abound. Then, when Alexander conquers the land, he is given Bagoas as a gift, and the boy is besotted. When Bagoas is very young, his father is murdered and he is sold as a slave to King Darius of Persia. The Persian Boy centers on the most tempestuous years of Alexander the Great's life, as seen through the eyes of his lover and most faithful attendant, Bagoas.

The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

A New York Times–bestselling novel of the ancient king of Macedon and his lover by the author Hilary Mantel calls "a shining light."









The Persian Boy by Mary Renault