by Mary Renault · Vintage Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780394722917
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«Fire from Heaven» is the historical novel by Mary Renault, published by Vintage Books in paperback (480 pages in English).
The novel recreates the childhood and youth of Alexander the Great: from his birth to the death of his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. It shows his education with Aristotle, his complex relationship with his parents, and the first steps of his ambition for glory and conquest.
First part of the «Alexander the Great» series by Mary Renault. The novel was originally published in 1969.
For readers of historical fiction and classical fiction interested in ancient Greece and the figure of Alexander the Great.
Eileen Mary Challans, known by her pen name Mary Renault, was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
