The Marks Of Mary Renault
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The Marks Of Mary Renault
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Author : Howard Bell
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-25
The Marks Of Mary Renault written by Howard Bell and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-25 with categories.
Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives, and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams.
The Masks Of Mary Renault
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Author : Caroline Zilboorg
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 2013-10-10
The Masks Of Mary Renault written by Caroline Zilboorg and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born Eileen Mary Challans in London in 1905, Mary Renault wrote six successful contemporary novels before turning to the historical fiction about ancient Greece for which she is best known. While Renault's novels are still highly regarded, her life and work have never been completely examined. Caroline Zilboorg seeks to remedy this in The Masks of Mary Renault by exploring Renault's identity as a gifted writer and a sexual woman in a society in which neither of these identities was clear or easy. Although Renault's life was anything but ordinary, this fact has often been obscured by her writing. The daughter of a doctor, she grew up comfortably and attended a boarding school in Bristol. She received a degree in English from St. Hugh's College in Oxford in 1928, but she chose not to pursue an academic career. Instead, she decided to attend the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, where she trained to be a nurse. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was assigned to the Winford Emergency Hospital in Bristol and briefly worked with Dunkirk evacuees. She went on to work in the Radcliffe Infirmary's brain surgery ward and was there until 1945. It was during her nurse's training that Renault met Julie Mullard, who became her lifelong companion. This important lesbian relationship both resolved and posed many problems for Renault, not the least of which was how she was to write about issues at once intensely personal and socially challenging. In 1939, Renault published her first novel under a pseudonym in order to mask her identity. It was a time when she was struggling not only with her vocation (nursing and writing), but also with her sexual identity in the social and moral context of English life during the war. In 1948, Renault left England with Mullard for South Africa and never returned. It was in South Africa that she made the shift from her early contemporary novels of manners to the mature historical novels of Hellenic life. The classical settings allowed Renault to mask material too explosive to deal with directly while simultaneously giving her an "academic" freedom to write about subjects vital to her—among them war, peace, career, women's roles, female and male homosexuality, and bisexuality. Renault's reception complicates an understanding of her achievement, for she has a special status within the academic community, where she is both widely read and little written about. Her interest in sexuality and specifically in homosexuality and bisexuality, in fluid gender roles and identities, warrants a rereading and reevaluation of her work. Eloquently written and extensively researched, The Masks of Mary Renault will be of special value to anyone interested in women's studies or English literature.
Mary Renault Collection
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Mary Renault Collection written by Mary Renault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with English literature categories.
Manuscripts: Funeral Games (1981), The Last of the Wine (1956), and The Praise Singer (1978).
The Hellenism Of Mary Renault
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Author : Bernard F. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 1972
The Hellenism Of Mary Renault written by Bernard F. Dick and has been published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Best known for her historical novels--The Last of the Wine (1956), The King Must Die (1958), The Bull from the Sea (1962), The Mask of Apollo (1966), and Fire from Heaven (1969)--Mary Renault's works have often appeared to readers as collateral reading to Greek literature. She is, doubtless, one of the most creative historical novelists of our era and the only bona fide Hellenist in twentieth-century fiction. What is less well known is that Mary Renault's earlier works, written between 1939and 1953--among them Promise of Love (1939), Return to Night (1947), and The Charioteer (1953)--were contemporary pieces, not concerned with antiquity. Covering the entire range of Miss Renault's work, Bernard Dick's penetrating study analyzes the early works and shows they were filled with classical allusions and dominated by Greek ideals of friendship.
Later Editions And Reissues Of Novels By Mary Renault Not Catalogued Separately
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Later Editions And Reissues Of Novels By Mary Renault Not Catalogued Separately written by Mary Renault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
The Friendly Young Ladies
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Virago Press
Release Date : 2014-10-02
The Friendly Young Ladies written by Mary Renault and has been published by Virago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Bloomsbury (London, England) categories.
Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets - Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from home and goes to live with her sister Leonora, who escaped eight years earlier. But there are surprises in store for conventional Elsie as her sister has a rather bohemian lifestyle: not only does Leo live in a houseboat on the Thames where she writes Westerns for a living, she shares her boat - and her bed - with Helen. When Peter pays a visit, turning his attention from one 'friendly young lady' to the next, he disturbs the calm for each of them - with results unforeseen by all . . . Mary Renault wrote this delightfully provocative novel in 1943 partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. The result is this witty and stylish social comedy.
Funeral Games
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-08-07
Funeral Games written by Mary Renault and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-07 with Fiction categories.
'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and a simpleton half-brother. Every long-simmering faction exploded into the vacuum of power. Wives, distant relatives and generals all vied for the loyalty of the increasingly undisciplined Macedonian army. Most failed and were killed in the attempt. For no one possessed the leadership to keep the great empire from crumbling. But Alexander's legend endured to spread into worlds he had seen only in dreams. 'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. 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' - HILARY MANTEL 'The Alexander Trilogy stands as one of the most important works of fiction in the 20th century . . . it represents the pinnacle of [Renault's] career . . . Renault's skill is in immersing us in their world, drawing us into its strangeness, its violence and beauty. It's a literary conjuring trick like all historical fiction - it can only ever be an approximation of the truth. But in Renault's hands, the trick is so convincing and passionately conjured' Antonia Senior, The Times
Mary Renault
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Author : Peter Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
Release Date : 1969
Mary Renault written by Peter Wolfe and has been published by Irvington Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mary Renault
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Author : Peter Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Irvington Publishers
Release Date : 1969
Mary Renault written by Peter Wolfe and has been published by Irvington Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Charioteer
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Author : Mary Renault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Charioteer written by Mary Renault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Conscientious objectors categories.
"Although it is set in the present day, this novel borrows its passion from Plato's Phaedrus. The charioteer is the self, the winged horses which draw him are the flesh and spirit, or perhaps more accurately, desire and hope. The conflict implied by Plato's myth is the theme of this remarkable novel of homosexual love"--Page 4 of cover.