Contents. MARY RENAULTS. EPIC NOVEL OF THE LAST. YEARS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT!. —Saturday Review. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE PERSIAN BOY. —library Journal

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MARY RENAULTS

EPIC NOVEL OF THE LAST

YEARS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT!

" MARY RENAULT'S IS A SPECIAL BRAND OF HISTORICAL FICTION, at once imaginative, dramatic, seductive, and scrupulous... An interplay of passion and intelligence. "

—Saturday Review

" SHE KNOWS THE TIME, AND SHE LOVES IT—IT SHOWS IN EVERY WORD SHE WRITES... The difficulty in dealing with Alexander in a work of fiction... is in this book superbly overcome: by using Bagoas, his lover, as the reader's eyes, she gets enough distance from Alexander to make him utterly real, human and superhuman at once, the incarnation of the spirit of the ancient world. "

—Cecelia Holland

" A MASTER WRITER. . . RENAULT CREATES SEDUCTION SCENES THAT VIBRATE with sensuousness. She probes into emotional relationships with compassion and insight. "

—Cleveland Plain Dealer

THE PERSIAN BOY

" RENAULT KNOWS HOW TO MAKE THE ANCIENT WORLD COME VIVIDLY ALIVE... An inherently dramatic story, full of the clash of mighty armies, and psychological insight into Alexander's personality. . . Meticulous research and authenticity. "

—Publishers Weekly

'THERE IS PLENTY OF JOY AND TERROR IN THIS BOOK, tempered by a gloriously romantic idealism which is uplifting because it reflects a profound sympathy for the infinite variety in the beauty, power, and mystery of

love. "

—library Journal

" EXCELLENT, IMAGINATIVELY RE-CREATING ANCIENT HISTORY... A remarkable chronicle, beautifully written, dramatic, and informative, not only about the past but

about human nature immemorially. "

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