Mary Renault

Mary Renault (1905–1983) was an English novelist whose works are still popular with devotees of the historical novel.

Bibliography

• Purposes of Love (US title: Promise of Love) (1939)
• Kind Are Her Answers (1940)
• The Friendly Young Ladies (US title: The Middle Mist) (1945)
• Return to Night (1947)
• North Face (1948)
• The Charioteer (1953)
• The Last of the Wine (1956) — set in Athens during the Peloponnesian War
• The King Must Die (1958) — the mythical Theseus up to his father's death (regarded by some as her best novel)
• The Bull from the Sea (1962) — the remainder of Theseus' life
• Lion in the Gateway: The Heroic battles of the Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Salamis, and Thermopylae (1964)
• The Mask of Apollo (1966) — an actor at the time of Plato and Dionysius the Younger
• Fire from Heaven (1969) — Alexander the Great up to his father's death
• The Persian Boy (1972) — Alexander after the conquest of Persia
• The Nature of Alexander (1975) — non-fiction
• The Praise Singer (1978) — the poet Simonides of Ceos
• Funeral Games (1981) — Alexander's successors

The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea have been adapted as an 11-part BBC Radio 4 serial entitled The King Must Die.

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