The Last of the Wine (Modern Library, 336.1): Mary Renault ... (Mattie Joseph) The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. No hashtags for The Last of the Wine have been added yet. He meets Lysis, a youth influenced by Socrates, and their relationship develops.
In The Last of the Wine, Renault cleverly uses the first person narrative to create an initial position from which to view the action, and I.
Mary Renault has the gift of making things clear without stopping to explain. 'Last of the Wine' is in the first person, and the narrator, Alexias, speaks as he would to a person of his time and culture.
As historical novels go, it doesn't get too much better than this adroit little tale. The first of Mary Renault's celebrated historical novels of ancient Greece, The Last of the Wine follows Alexias and Lysis into adulthood, when Athens is defeated by Sparta, the Thirty Tyrants take hold of the city, and the lives of both men are changed forever. No hashtags for The Last of the Wine have been added yet.
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