Mary Renault: Funeral Games

USA 2002, 335 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
Alexander the Great died at the age of 33, leaving behind an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India and a new cosmopolitan model for western civilization. Mary Renault imagines the world of this charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend. After Alexander's death in 323 B.C. his only direct heirs were two unborn sons and ... Weiterlesen

Alicia Gaspar de Alba: Sor Juanas zweiter Traum

Dt.v. A. Krug. D 2002, 670 S., geb., € 10.28
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz lebte von 1648 bis 1695 und gilt heute als erste Feministin beider Amerikas und zehnte Muse Mexikos. Zeit ihres Lebens hat sie sich gegen das Frauenbild der Zeit, das Frauen als dumm, stumm und schwanger abstempelte, gewehrt. Außerordentlich gebildet erregten ihre verschlüsselten Liebesgedichte an María Luisa, die Vizekönigin von Neuspanien, Aufsehen. Die Historikerin und ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Last of the Wine

USA 2001, 389 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Vintage
In the 5th century B.C., Alexias, a young Athenian of good family, reaches mnahood during the last phases of the Peloponnesian War. The adult world he enters is one in which the power and influence of his class have been undermined by the forces of war. Alexias finds himself drawn to the controversial teachings of Socrates, following him even though ... Weiterlesen

Hans Dieter Schreeb: Hinter den Mauern von Peking

D 2001, 685 S., Pb, € 10.23
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Als 1900 der deutsche Gesandte in Peking ermordet wird, wird außer einer Entsatztruppe der Diplomat Alfons von Mumm nach China geschickt. Mumm, der keinen großen Hehl aus seiner schwulen Veranlagung macht, verliebt sich auf der Überfahrt in Leutnant Robert Berlau. In China angekommen, findet er die Städte in Trümmern, und in den Flüssen treiben Leichen. Die Revolution der »Boxer« zieht ... Weiterlesen

Nick Mamatas: Northern Gothic

USA 2001, 87 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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July, 1863: William Patten learns exactly what his life is worth. $ 300 is the amount needed to legally avoid the draft into the meat grinder of the Civil War. Drawn into New York' Civil War Draft Riots something snaps in William, and he prowls the cobblestones of Chelsea, looking only to kill, and drown his pain and fear in ... Weiterlesen

Chris Adrian: Gob's Grief

USA 2000, 387 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Gob's Grief« recounts the lives of Gob and Tomo Woodhull, fictional twin sons of the real Victoria Woodhull, the 19th-century proto-feminist. In August of 1863, Tomo, who is 11 years old, runs off to the Civil War and dies in his first battle. Gob grows up in a profound state of grief, and by the time that he's an adult ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Praise Singer

USA 1988, 256 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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Vintage
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patronage combined to produce a flowering of the arts. Born into a stern farming family on the island of Keos, Simonides escapes his harsh childhood through a lucky apprenticeship with a renowned ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Mask of Apollo

USA 1988, 373 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Vintage
Set in 4th-century B.C. Greece, »The Mask of Apollo« is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of Apollo, a relic of the theater's golden age, which is now past. At first his mascot, the mask gradually becomes his conscience, and he refers to it his gravest decisions, when he ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The King Must Die

USA 1988, 388 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Vintage
In myth, Theseus was the slayer of the man-devouring Minotaur in Crete. What the founder-hero might have been in real life is another question, brilliantly explored in »The King Must Die«. Drawing on modern scholarship and archaeological findings at Knossos, Mary Renault's Theseus is an utterly lifelike figure - a king of immense charisma, whose boundless strivings flow from strength ... Weiterlesen

Mary Renault: The Nature of Alexander

USA 1979, 276 pp., brochure, € 15.95
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Pantheon
»The Nature of Alexander« is a popular, non-academic, very readable biography of Alexander the Great. It is Mary Renault's only non-fiction book. It's not a »neutral« book, but presents Alexander in a very favorable light. Nevertheless, it's a »popular« work, but by no means devoid of authority.