Last of the Wine
by Mary Renault
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/Very Good-
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Modern Library #336 with intact but edgeworn dj, not price clipped. Interior pgs are bright and tight, maps, glossary, chronological table among 389 clean pages.
Synopsis
Mary Renault was born in London and educated at Oxford. She then trained for three years as a nurse, and wrote her first published novel, Promise of Love . Her next three novels were written while serving in WWII. After the war, she settled in South Africa and traveled considerably in Africa and Greece. It was at this time that she began writing her brilliant historical reconstructions of ancient Greece, including The King Must Die, The Last of the Wine , and The Persian Boy . She died in Cape Town in 1983.
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- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101223D
- Title
- Last of the Wine
- Author
- Mary Renault
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Date Published
- 1956
- Pages
- 389
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ancient Greece, Athenians,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical fiction;
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- Price Clipped
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.