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 1939 and 1953among 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."
- ISBN10 0809305763
- ISBN13 9780809305766
- Publish Date 1 October 1972
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English