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Fire from heaven : a novel of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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?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 Alexander the Great stands alone as a leader and strategist, and Fire from Heaven is Mary Renault{u2019}s unsurpassed dramatization of the formative years of his life. His parents fight for their precocious son{u2019}s love: On one side, his volatile father, Philip, and on the other, his overbearing mother, Olympias. The story tells of the conqueror{u2019}s two great bonds{u2014}to his horse, Oxhead, and to his dearest friend and eventual lover, Hephaistion{u2014}and of the army he commands when he is barely an adult. Coming of age during the battles for southern Greece, Alexander the Great appears in all of his colors{u2014}as the man who first takes someone{u2019}s life at age twelve and who swiftly eliminates his rivals as soon as he comes to power{u2014}and emerges as a captivating, complex, larger-than-

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Author

Mary Renault

Publisher

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781480432871

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Children'S

Rating

4.3 / 5 (979 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14