Mary Renault
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Eileen Mary Challans, known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
Renault c. 1946
Marble statue of Alexander the Great
The Persian Boy
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The Persian Boy is a 1972 historical novel written by Mary Renault and narrated by Bagoas, a young Persian from an aristocratic family who is captured by his father's enemies, castrated, and sold as a
Mary Renault
…Fire from Heaven (1969) — Alexander the Great from the age of four up to his father's death The Persian Boy (1972) — from Bagoas' perspective; Alexander the Great after the conquest of Persia The Praise Singer (1978) — the poet Simonides of Ceos (UK 1979…
First US edition